P.F. (Pamela) Jordan

Faculty of Humanities

Onderzoek FGw

Visiting address

Binnengasthuisstraat 9

Postal address

Postbus 1605
1000 BP Amsterdam

Profile

Pamela Jordan is an architect and doctoral candidate at the University of Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture. Her project, “Site Sound: Using acoustics to analyze Mount Lykaion’s ancient sanctuary to Zeus”, is a multidisciplinary, non-destructive archaeological investigation funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Her broader research uses sound-based methodologies to analyse historic and contemporary built environments -- other recent projects have included places of worship, military installations, and infrastructural ruins. Her work includes architectural design practice, artistic collaborations, and archaeological fieldwork, and her research has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (DE), the HEAD Genuit Foundation (DE), the Dutch Research Council (NL), and the Society of Architectural Historians (US). Pamela is a registered architect (US; LEED AP) and holds master’s degrees in architecture and historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania (US).
Recent Activities

Open access article: Employing Psychoacoustics in Sensory Archaeology: Developments at the Ancient Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Lykaion

In the press: 'Listening' to This Ancient Greek Sanctuary Could Reveal Secrets of Its Use

Guest editor and contributor: "Sounding Heritage", Issue 9.2 of Change Over Time (University of Pennsylvania Press)

International conference director (with S. Mura),

November 2023: "Sensory Decay Symposium" (UvA) -- more information

October 2021: "Sensing The Past: A workshop in applied sensory archaeology and heritage assessment" (UvA)

Selected recent invited presentations

"Embodied sonic experience: an overlooked foundation of built heritage", International Conference on Heritage and Affect, Affective Architectures Lab, University of Oklahoma (2023)

“Acoustic preservation practices,” Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (2022)

"Relational analysis in soundscape preservation", 'Soundscape Preservation' session, Inter-Noise annual conference (2021)

Interviews and Podcasts

"Attentions yet to come, Talking to Pam Jordan", Metropolis M, Sept 2022 (LINK TO RECORDING)

(1) "Picnics at the Wall with Pamela Jordan", and (2) "Soundscape Legacies", The Rest is Just Noise Podcast, Nov 2021 and Jan 2022 (LINK TO RECORDING 1 & RECORDING 2)

"And Vibrations Everywhere", The City Talks Back Assembly (Theatrum Mundi and Onassis Stegi), June 2021 (LINK TO RECORDING)
Publications
2023

Jordan, P. (2023). Employing Psychoacoustics in Sensory Archaeology: Developments at the Ancient Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Lykaion. Open Archaeology, 9(1), Article 20220329. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0329 [details]
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Schulte-Fortkamp, B., & Jordan, P. (2023). Soundscape: The Holistic Understanding of Acoustic Environments. In B. Schulte-Fortkamp, A. Fiebig, J. A. Sisneros, A. N. Popper, & R. R. Fay (Eds.), Soundscapes: Humans and Their Acoustic Environment (pp. 49-79). (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research; Vol. 76). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22779-0_3 [details]

2021

Jordan, P. (2021). Searching for ancient sonic experience in present-day landscapes. Archeologia e Calcolatori, 32(1), 439-456. https://doi.org/10.19282/ac.32.1.2021.24 [details]
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Jordan, P. (2021). Sounding the mountain: Analyzing the soundscape of Mount Lykaion’s sanctuary to Zeus. Telestes, 6, 51-65. [details]

2020

Jordan, P. (2020). Sound Experience in Archaeology and Field Investigations: An Approach to Mapping Past Activities Through Sound at Mount Lykaion’s Sanctuary of Zeus. KLEOS : Amsterdam Bulletin of Ancient Studies and Archaeology, 3, 9-30. https://www.academia.edu/43175262/Sound_Experience_in_Archaeology_and_Field_Investigations_An_Approach_to_Mapping_Past_Activities_Through_Sound_at_Mount_Lykaion_s_Sanctuary_of_Zeus [details]
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2020

Fiebig, A., Jordan, P., & Moshona, C. C. (2020). Assessments of Acoustic Environments by Emotions – The Application of Emotion Theory in Soundscape. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 573041. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573041 [details]
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2019

Jordan, P. (2019). Listening Beyond the Visible. Change Over Time, 9(2), 118-131. https://doi.org/10.1353/cot.2019.0007 [details]

Jordan, P. (2019). Overhearing History: Sound as Historical Material. Change Over Time, 9(2), 132-144. https://doi.org/10.1353/cot.2019.0008 [details]
2021

Jordan, P., & Fiebig, A. (2021). COVID-19 Impacts on Historic Soundscape Perception and Site Usage. Acoustics, 3(3), 594-610. https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics3030038 [details]
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2020

Jordan, P. (2020). Historic Approaches to Sonic Encounter at the Berlin Wall Memorial. In F. Aletta, & J. Kang (Eds.), Historical Acoustics: Relationships between People and Sound over Time (pp. 203-223). MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics1030029 [details]
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Jordan, P., & Fiebig, A. (2020). New descriptors for capturing perceptions within historic soundscapes. In INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings: Seoul, Korea, 23–26 August 2020 (pp. 3489-3496). Institute of Noise Control Engineering. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/ince/incecp/2020/00000261/00000003/art00055#expand/collapse [details]

2019

Jordan, P. (2019). Historic Approaches to Sonic Encounter at the Berlin Wall Memorial. Acoustics, 1(3), 517-537. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics1030029 [details]
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2017

Jordan, P. F. (2017). Valuing the soundscape – integrating heritage concepts in soundscape assessment. In INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, InterNoise17 (pp. 5694-5702). Institute of Noise Control Engineering.

2016

Jordan, P. F. (2016). Soundscapes in historic settings - A case study from ancient Greece: Towards a Quieter Future. In Proceedings of the Inter-Noise 45th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (pp. 4783-4794). German Acoustical Society (DEGA). http://pub.dega-akustik.de/IN2016/data/articles/001034.pdf

Schulte-Fortkamp, B., & Jordan, P. (2016). When soundscape meets architecture. Noise Mapping, 3(1), 216-231. https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2016-0015
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Prize / grant

Jordan, P. (2019). Spiro Kostof Fellowship. https://www.sah.org/docs/default-source/conference/2019-providence-program-final-web.pdf?sfvrsn=d5ad5a9b_2

Jordan, P. (2018). NWO PhD in the Humanities Fellowship. https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/news/2018/06/three-phd-candidates-in-the-humanities-a…

Media appearance

Jordan, P. (11-01-2022). The Rest is Just Noise [Web]. Picnics at the Wall with Pamela Jordan. https://www.justnoisepod.com/1438372/9866427-picnics-at-the-wall-with-pamela-jordan

Jordan, P. (02-11-2021). The Rest is Just Noise [Web]. Soundscape legacies. https://www.justnoisepod.com/1438372/9477924-ep-12-soundscape-legacies

Journal editor

Jordan, P. (member of editorial board) (2018-2019). Cities & Health (Journal).

Jordan, P. (editor) (2018-2021). Change Over Time (Journal). https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44786

Others

Jordan, P. (organiser) & Mura, S. (organiser) (7-10-2021 - 9-10-2021). Sensing the Past, Amsterdam. 'Sensing the past' is an international workshop that offers a forum for exchange between established scholars and early-stage researchers (including (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://www.uva.nl/sensingthepast
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