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Faculty Fellow

John Jackson, Jr.

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Penn Provost

Richard Perry University Professor

About

John L. Jackson, Jr., is Walter H. Annenburg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Jackson received his BA in Communication (Radio/TV/Film) summa cum laude from Howard University (1993), earned his PhD in Anthropology with distinction from Columbia University (2000), and served as a junior fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1999-2002). He is the author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2001); Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity (University of Chicago Press, 2005); Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness (Basic Civitas, 2008); Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (Harvard University Press, 2013); Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion, co-written with Cora Daniels (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2014), and Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment (NYU Press, 2016), co-written with Carolyn Rouse and Marla Frederick. His is also editor of Social Policy and Social Justice (2016), distributed by the University of Pennsylvania Press. His most recently completed film, co-directed with Deborah A. Thomas, is Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens (Third World Newsreel, 2012). Jackson previously served as Senior Advisor to the Provost on Diversity and Associate Dean of Administration in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Selected Publications

Jackson, John L. 2016. Social Policy and Social Justice. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Jackson, John L., Carolyn Rouse, and Marla Frederick. 2016. Televised Redemption: The Media Production of Black Muslims, Jews, and Christians. New York City: New York University Press.

Jackson, John L. and Cora Daniels. 2014. Impolite Conversations: On Race, Class, Sex, Religion, and Politics. New York City: Atria Books [Simon and Schuster imprint].

Jackson, John L. 2013. Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Jackson, John L. 2008. Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness. New York City: Basic Civitas.

Affiliated PhD Student

Muira McCammon

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Doctoral Student, City and Regional Planning

School/Department

Areas of Interest

    About

    Muira McCammon is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication and a master’s in law candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She studies how detention takes shape in the everyday lives of people whose job is to sustain it, focusing on U.S. military servicemembers and their families and communities at Guantánamo.  She is particularly interested in how social media connects active-duty personnel with urban spaces during their deployment. With support from the Annenberg School of Communication’s Center for Media at Risk and the Media, Inequality, and Change Center, she is examining the legal and economic challenges Philadelphia journalists face in obtaining government documents and data through Right to Know requests.

    Under the auspices of the Beinecke Scholarship, McCammon received an M.A. in Translation Studies/Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she wrote her thesis on the history of the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library. Additionally, she holds a B.A. in French/Francophone Studies and a B.A. in Political Science/International Relations from Carleton College. She has previously held fellowships at the Sitka Fellows Program, the Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab, and the Turkish Fulbright Commission. Before beginning her doctoral program, McCammon worked as a freelance investigative reporter and covered issues in defense and technology for VICE, Slate, and others.

    Publications

    McCammon, M. (2015). “A Short History of the Gitmo Undersea Cable No One Is Talking About.”Slate Magazine, October 2. https://slate.com/technology/2015/10/the-undersea-internet-cable-connecting-the-u-s-and-guantanamo-bay.html

    McCammon, M. (2016). Stories, Scandals, and Censorship: Telling the Story of the Guantánamo Bay Detainee Library Facilities. The Massachusetts Review57(3), 463-487.

    McCammon, M. (2018). “Federal Agencies Have Far Too Much Leeway to Delete Tweets.” Slate Magazine, April 17. https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/can-federal-agencies-really-just-delete-tweets.html.

    McCammon, M. with N. Bell. (2018). Competing Visions of the Global Order Colloquium Report, Perry World House. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QVBxBCRU096eE6YozvsYNnbdKx6UZQ4K/view

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