John L. Jackson, Jr.

Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Annenberg School for Communication

jackson5@asc.upenn.edu

Phone:

(215) 746 0440

Education:

Ph.D. Columbia University, 2000

Research Interests:

Ethnographic Film and Visual Studies; Race Theory and Identity; Globalization, Transnationalism, and Diaspora; Religion, Media, and Modernity; Social Theory; Urban Studies and Class Formation; The Politics and Poetics of Ethnography; Cultural Studies and Performance Theory; Africana Studies and Popular Culture; U.S, Israel.

Appointments:

Anthropology Department Faculty; Annenberg School for Communication Faculty; Africana Studies.