Background
Jason Jackson was born in 1969.
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Jason Jackson
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Degrees in cultural anthropology and in folklore, as well as his Doctor of Philosophy degree in anthropology from Indiana University Bloomington.
Career
At IUB, he has served as Chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and as Director of the Folklore Institute. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, of American Studies, of Native American and Indigenous Studies and of Cultural Studies. He received his Bachelor of Arts in sociology from University of Florida in 1990 with a minor in anthropology.
He earned his Master of Arts Jackson was Curator of Anthropology at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1995–2000) and Assistant Curator of Ethnology at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman, Oklahoma (2000–2004).
Doctor Jackson"s research interests include the following areas: (1) folklore and ethnology (intellectual and cultural property issues, folklore and folklife, material culture, religion, ritual, cultural change, ethnohistory, music and dance, ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, social organization, social theory, history of folkloristics and anthropology), (2) linguistic anthropology (verbal art, oratory, language shift, language ideologies, theories of performance, language and culture), (3) curatorship (community collaboration, exhibitions, collections management), (4) American and native American studies (Eastern North America). Doctor Jackson"s ethnographic and historical work has focused on the life of the Yuchi, a Native American people residing today in Oklahoma, United States of America. He has published and edited several books on Native American topics, including He has also published numerous articles based on his studies of Native American ethnography and folklore, and is the editor of the journal Museum Anthropology Review.
Doctor Jackson has additionally spent time as an editor of the Journal of Folklore Research.
