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Lincoln University – Distinguished scholar, John L. Jackson, Jr., will be speaking to the Lincoln Community on Thursday, March 7, about his research on Black Hebrewism, notably the Black Jewish community in New York.
The talk, which will be in Grim Hall 200 at 11 a.m., reflects the diversity of Jackson’s work. He is a Professor of Communication and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina. Dr. Jackson spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Jackson received his B.A. in Communications from Howard University and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University. As a filmmaker, he produced documentaries, short films, and feature-length fiction films that have screened at film festivals worldwide.
Jackson has published three books and his research on Black Hebrewism is the focus of his next book project. He is also working on two documentary films. One film is about contemporary conspiracy theories in urban America and the other is about examining the history of state violence against Rastafarians in Jamaica.
After his talk, Dr. Jackson will represent the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication at the Third Annual Mass Communications Graduate Forum in the Ware Center Auditorium.
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