Regine O. Jackson
Phone: 404.471.5226
Email: rjackson@agnesscott.edu
Office Location: Campbell 124
Academic Degrees
- B.A., Brown University
- M.A., University of Michigan
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Professor Jackson is a race scholar, whose teaching and research focus on ethnicity and immigration, Haitian migration and diaspora studies, contemporary Caribbean and African communities in the U.S., and the sociology of space and place. She has received grants and awards from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, American Sociological Association, Social Science Research Council, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Spencer Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Before joining the faculty at Agnes Scott, she taught at Emory University and the University of Richmond. Her current research focuses on Haitian émigrés in postcolonial Africa and on spatial inequality in the (new) South. She is also the Faculty Coordinator for Global Learning.
Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Books:
- 2011. Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora. New York and London: Routledge.
Research articles:
- 2021. "It Starts with a Journey: Global Learning as a Holistic, Interdisciplinary Curricular and Co-curricular Framework at a Liberal Arts College," Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 21(5): 186 - 195.
- 2020. “An Asset-Poor Black American Middle Class: The Iterative Role of Hard Work, Education, and Intergenerational Poverty.” In Christian Suter, S. Madheswaran and B. P. Vani, eds., The Middle Class in World Society: Negotiations, Diversities and Lived Experiences, 201 - 218. London: Routledge.
- 2016. “Inequality in the ‘Cradle of Liberty’: Race/Ethnicity and Wealth in Greater Boston,” Race and Social Problems 8(1): 18 - 28.
- 2016. “Wealth Inequalities in Greater Boston: Do Race and Ethnicity Matter?” Community Development Discussion Paper No. 2 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
- 2015. “The Color of Wealth in Boston” (A joint publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Duke University and The New School).
- 2014. “‘It Just Happens’: Colorblind Ideology and Undergraduate Explanations for Lack of Interaction across Race Lines,” Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 9(3): 91 – 208.
- 2014. "The Failure of Categories: Haitians in the United Nations Organization in the Congo, 1960-1964." Journal of Haitian Studies 20(1): 34-64.
- 2012. “Imagining Boston: Haitian Immigrants and Place in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty.” Journal of American Studies 46(4): 855 – 873.
- 2010. “Black Immigrants and the Rhetoric of Social Distancing.” Sociology Compass 4(3): 193 – 206.
- 2010. “The Shifting Nature of Racism.” In Cameron D. Lippard and Charles A. Gallagher, eds. Being Brown in Dixie: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the New South, 25 - 51. Boulder, CO: First Forum Press.
- 2007. “After the Exodus: The New Catholics in Boston’s Old Ethnic Neighborhoods.” Religion and American Culture 17(2): 191 – 212.
- 2007. “Beyond Social Distancing: Intermarriage and Ethnic Boundaries among Black Americans in Boston.” In Y. Shaw-Taylor and S.A. Tuch, eds. The Other African Americans: Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, 217 – 254. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.