Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC 107
Tampa, Florida 33620-8100
Office Phone: (813) 974-6882
Email:ajackson@cas.usf.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Heritage Research Lab News - The Heritage Researcher Newsletter
Dr. Jackson profiled in St. Petersburg Times article -- June 29, 2007
National Park Service Honor--Dr. Jackson was appointed to the Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, October 2007
I am interested in heritage research and the business of heritage research management in public spaces. I am engaged in critically analyzing the interpretation and representation of culture (such as heritage tourism) as a community and/or national resource from a cultural anthropological perspective. I am currently conducting research in plantation communities in the U.S. and Caribbean. I utilize ethnographic and ethnohistorical research methodologies to examine issues of power, race, place, class, and gender with respect to agricultural/culinary technology, intergenerational knowledge transfer, and autonomy and interdependence between cultural groups in plantation spaces over time and into the present.
Socio-cultural and historical anthropology; identity and representation; social construction of race, class, gender, ethnicity; Heritage resource management; American, African American and African Diaspora culture; ethnographic research methods; US and the Caribbean.
2003 “Africans at Snee Farm Plantation:Informing Representations of Plantation Life at a National Heritage Site.” Southern Anthropological Society (SAS) Proceedings, Vol. 36, 2003.
2002 “Yes, She Too Was a Pioneer of Native Anthropology: The Role of Zora Neale Hurston’s Research in the Production of Anthropological Knowledge” (authored by: Tahra Edwards, Antoinette Jackson and Mercedes Prieto). The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, Volume XVI, 2002.
2001 “Heritage-Tourism and the Historical Present: Africans at Snee Farm Plantation.” Southern Anthropologist v28(1), Fall 2001.
2003 “Ethnohistorical Study of Kingsley Plantation Community” — Jacksonville, FL (with Allan F. Burns); National Park Service Contract No. Q5038000491.
2001 “Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Report on Snee Farm, Charles Pinckney National Historic Site”— Mount Pleasant, SC (Tyson Gibbs, PI); National Park Service Contract No. P5440990154.
2002 “Anna Kingsley: From Slave to Woman of Distinction.” FlaVour (Black Florida Life and Style), Vol. 3(3).
1998 “Why Kemet? A Cultural Awakening.” Seshat Publications.
1996 “Inside AirTouch- A Leading Wireless Competitor.” Telecom Publishing Group, a division of Capitol Publications Inc.
2001 U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service Grant for Kingsley Plantation ethnographic and ethnohistorical study; $35,000 award for African Diaspora research (Co-PI with Allan Burns).
2001 Student Paper Competition Winner, Doctoral Level, May 2001, Southern Anthropological Society Meeting (Paper: “Heritage-Tourism and the Historical Present: Africans at Snee Farm Plantation”).
2000-2001 Florida Education Fund McKnight Doctoral Fellowship.
1998-2000 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship to study Yoruba language and culture.
August 2005-present Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida. Currently responsible for two undergraduate courses: “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” and “Anthropology of American Culture”.
December 2003-December 2004 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida. Responsible for preparing and teaching two upper division undergraduate anthropology courses: “Anthropology of American Culture” and “Gender Roles–A Cross-cultural Perspective”.
2002 Curacao, Netherlands Antilles– Summer 2002. Preliminary ethnographic and ethnohistorical study of African Caribbean communities in plantation spaces. Specific focus on agricultural and culinary practices.
2001 Kingsley Plantation Community study, Jacksonville, FL. Funded by a National Park Service grant.
2000 Snee Farm Plantation Community study, Mount Pleasant, SC. Funded by a National Park Service grant.
August 2005-present Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida in Tampa.
January 1991-August 1998 Product Manager, AT&T/Lucent Technologies ( Naperville, Illinois). Developed product and service offerings to win business for AT&T/Lucent Technologies. Product focus: 5ESS ® Switch and wireless software.
March 24, 2005—Society for Applied Anthropology 2005 Meetings ( Santa FE, NM). Paper Presented, “The Kingsley Plantation National Historic Site of Florida—Community Associations and Ethnographic Profiles.”
February 21, 2003—FASA Friday Colloquium ( University of Florida). Paper Presented: “Through the spy-glass of Zora’s Stage:Folklore Production” (Antoinette T. Jackson and Tracey Graham).
November 20-24, 2002—American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA). Paper Presented: “Representing Diasporic Experience: Culinary Practices in Plantation Communities.”
October 24-26, 2002—Cultivating Knowledge(s) Symposium ( University of Florida—Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research). Paper presented: “Women of the Kingsley Plantation – Anna Kingsley and ‘Aunt Easter’ – Escaping Slavery with Eyes on the Future, Their Legacy Lives On.”
May 30-June 1, 2002—The Zora Neale Hurston Society Annual Meeting ( Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD). Paper Presented: “Yes, She Too Was a Pioneer of Native Anthropology: The Role of Zora Neale Hurston’s Research in the Production of Anthropological Knowledge” (Tahra Edwards and Antoinette Jackson).
February 1-2, 2002—Allen Morris Conference on the History of Florida and the Atlantic World: Immigration, Migration, and Diaspora ( Florida State University). Paper Presented: “‘To and Fro’ Florida: Experiencing the African Diaspora, The Kingsley Case.”
January 25, 2002—FASA Friday Colloquium ( University of Florida). Paper Presented: “‘To and Fro’ Florida: Experiencing the African Diaspora, The Kingsley Case.”
May 6, 2001—Spirits of the Cloth, Contemporary Quilts by African American Artists ( Harn Museum, University of Florida). Lecture: “Memories in Material Culture.”
April 5-8, 2001—Southern Anthropological Society Annual Meeting ( Nashville, TN). Paper Presented: “Heritage-Tourism and the Historical Present: Africans at Snee Farm Plantation.”
March 9-12, 2000—Southern Anthropological Society Annual Meeting ( Mobile, AL). Paper Presented: “We Fed Ourselves and Them Too: Foodways and Food Security Strategies of enslaved Africans on South Carolina Rice Plantations.”