Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Psychology; Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the School of Literature, Science, and Arts; Research Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Social Research Center for Group Dynamics
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James S. Jackson was the Daniel Katz Distinguishes University Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Research Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Social Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan. His research focused on issues of racial and ethnic influences on life course development, attitude change, reciprocity, social support, and coping and health among blacks in the Diaspora.
His pioneering National Survey of Black Americans, begun in 1977, generated a wide range of influential research. The Program for Research on Black Americans, which he founded in 1976, has been an important center for research and training, producing a leading group of scholars.
James Jackson was the former Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and past national president of the Black Students Psychological Association and Association of Black Psychologists. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, American Psychological Association. He also received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career Contributions in Applied Psychology from the Association for Psychological Sciences.
Jackson’s contributions had earned him numerous distinctions, including election to the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
After a long and heroic battle with pancreatic cancer, Dr. James Jackson died peacefully on Sept. 1, 2020.
