Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Research Professor Emeritus, RCGD
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James S. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Research Professor, Institute for Social Research (ISR), all at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on racial and ethnic influences on life course development, attitude change, reciprocity, social support, and coping and health among blacks in the Diaspora. He is past Director of ISR and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and past national president of the Association of Black Psychologists, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the Consortium of Social Science Associations. In 2018 he was awarded the University of Michigan's inaugural Jackson Distinguished Diversity Scholar Career Award. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, American Psychological Association (APA), and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career Contributions in Applied Psychology from the Association for Psychological Sciences. He was awarded the 2019 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology (APA), and the 2019 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the W.E.B. DuBois fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, and a presidentially appointed member of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation. He is a former Senior Health Policy Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and he currently directs extensive national and international studies of social, political behavior, and mental and physical health of the Black American and Black Caribbean populations.
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