The “In the News” category identifies posts where the Heritage Research Lab is mentioned publicly or in the news media.
Dr. Antoinette Jackson’s new book Heritage, Tourism, and Race: The Other Side of Leisure views heritage and leisure tourism in the Americas through the lens of race, and is especially concerned with redressing gaps in recognizing and critically accounting for African Americans as an underrepresented community in leisure. Please view Dr.…
Join Professor Antoinette Jackson as she explores leisure and recreation in Sulphur Springs and Spring Hill in the early 1900s and discusses what we can learn today from this look back. Her presentation is Sunday, August 25, 2pm at the Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center. She will be presenting…
Dr. Antoinette Jackson was awarded a USF Faculty International Travel Grant for a lecture to be given on June 4, 2019 at Brandenburg University of of Technology in Cottbus, Germany. Jackson is an invited speaker and her talk is entitled: Intangible Cultural Heritage and Living Communities-Studying structures and engaging people.
Congratulations to USF graduate student Eric Koenig, who won the 2015 Valene Smith Tourism Poster Competition, sponsored by the Tourism and Heritage TIG, at the recent SfAA meeting. His poster was entitled, “Tourism Development, Fishing, and Heritage Conception: Exploring Pathways to Sustainable Heritage Tourism on the Placencia Peninsula, Belize.” The…
Dr. Jackson’s article on intangible cultural heritage and the Nicodemus Community was featured on the homepage of Anthropology News Online! You can now read it at https://heritagelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/AnthropologyNewsMarch2014JacksonArticle.pdf.
On October 13, 2013, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story about improvements to east Tampa retention ponds. Many of the changes can be attributed to community engagement and collaboration between USF Anthropology, Engineering, and Geography faculty and students. Sarina Ergas, Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator, Dept. Civil & Environmental…
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…