In February, Dr. Antoinette Jackson sat down with the Society of Black Archaeologists to discuss her life, career, and research. In two interviews, Dr. Jackson speaks about her early influences, her career change from Business to Anthropology, her experiences as a graduate student, her new book and her current research…
Kiersten Downs will bike cross-country this summer to support student veterans and the USF chapter of the Student Veterans Association to raise awareness about and support veterans who are transitioning into campus life. Kiersten, a PhD student in Applied Anthropology, president of the University of South Florida chapter of Student Veterans…
USF anthropologist will work to enhance ethnography programs at U.S. National Parks. A prestigious appointment will have the University of South Florida’s Associate Professor Antoinette Jackson spending a lot more time at national parks over the next couple of years. As the newly-appointed regional ethnographer for the National Park Service…
Dr. Antoinette Jackson’s newly-published book, Speaking for the Enslaved: Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites, is the culmination of over 10 years of research and engagement with communities and descendants of enslaved Africans who worked on rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It was praised as “a must read for…
A prestigious appointment will have the University of South Florida’s Associate Professor Antoinette Jackson spending a lot more time at national parks over the next couple of years. As the newly-appointed regional ethnographer for the National Park Service for the Southeast Region, Jackson is concerned with research and resource development…
I took another trip to Homestead and Miami in the past couple of weeks. I visited the archives department of the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation department as well as History Miami to search through photos and documents. The picture below is one among the photos that I have found of the…
Here is the link to the discussion/interview I had with host, Melvina Ravenel on Gullah Geechie news. It provides a basic discussion about the project: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wrbg/2012/05/26/gullah-geechie-news
The scope of the project has been changed from community identity to place, sense of place, and how culture creates place. This will possibly align better with the efforts and examining the beach. It will be compared to other previously segregated beaches in the area including Virginia Key beach. This visit…
Justin was a researcher in the Heritage Research Lab under Dr. Antoinette Jackson’s direction while pursuing his MA degree in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida. He worked on Dr. Jackson’s NPS projects in Archery, Georgia and Nicodemus, Kansas. His thesis research analyzed women’s roles in cultural reproduction…
For this trip to Homestead I was only able to interview one person. He happened to have worked for Miami-Dade County in the past, but is currently an artist. Another possible interviewee stated that he may have some pictures that can be used for the project. He is also another…