Fatimah Jackson

Fatimah Linda Collier Jackson is an American biologist and anthropologist.[1][2][3] She is a Professor of biology at Howard University and Director of Cobb Research Laboratory and the recipient of the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Fatimah Linda Collier Jackson
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCornell University
OccupationBiologist and anthropologist
Known forCharles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award

Education

She received her B.A. (cum laude and with distinction in all subjects), M.A., and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Career and research

In 1981 she became Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley in the department of Anthropology before moving to the University of Florida in 1986 as Associate Professor. She became professor emerita of applied biological anthropology at the University of Maryland after teaching there for 20 years (1990-2011), which was recognised by a Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award in 1995.[4][5] In 2009 Jackson held a professorship and director role in biological anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She became a professor of biology and director of the W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory at Howard University in 2013[6]. In 2017 she received the STEM Woman Researcher of the Year from Howard University.[7]

Jackson served as director of UNC's Institute of African American Research from 2009 to 2011.[8] She serves now as the director/ curator of the W. Montague Cobb Research Lab.[9] Her research on peoples of recent African-descent also led to appearances on the PBS program African American Lives and the BBC's Motherland.

In 2020 Jackson was awarded the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. She is the first African American woman to receive this award.[10]

Research

Jackson specialises in the study of human-plant coevolution and anthropological genetics. For example, genetic changes in human evolution due to cultural migrations. Another example is the influence of phytochemicals on human metabolic effects.[11]

At the Cobb Research Lab, Jackson conducts studies on African American biological history with access to the largest collection of African American skeletal and dental remains in the world.[7]

In 2008, Jackson published a paper using the method of ethnogenetic layering (EL) for analysis of health disparities across microethic groups (MEG). The current use of racial models for analysis of variation in disease may fail to capture medically relevant information. EL relies on computational approaches by using GIS-facilitated maps to produce geographical regional profiles which are used to better understand disease risk. Some incorporated information includes, local historical demography, genetic diversity, cultural patterns, and specific chronic disease risks (e.g. dietary and toxicological exposures). [12]

References
  1. "Let minority serving institutions lead the way". Science. 2014-08-22. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  2. Seabrook, John (2008-09-02). Flash of Genius: And Other True Stories of Invention. Macmillan. p. 124. ISBN 9780312535728.
  3. Reardon, Jenny (2009-02-09). Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics. ISBN 978-1400826407.
  4. "Fatimah Jackson, Ph.D". Archived from the original on June 4, 2009. Retrieved 2013-04-05.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  5. "Fatimah Jackson, Ph.D: Background Summary". Archived from the original on May 5, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  6. "CRL Director, Fatimah Jackson Named STEM Woman Researcher of the Year". Cobb Research Lab. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  7. "Dr. Fatimah Jackson". WISE Muslim Women. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  8. "Jackson to direct UNC's Institute of African-American Research". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. July 21, 2009. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  9. "W. Montague Cobb Research lab".
  10. "Fatimah Jackson to Receive the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2020-03-20. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  11. "Fatimah Jackson". W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  12. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18428008/
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