Jason Baird Jackson

Jason Baird Jackson, Ph.D. (born 1969) is the Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. He is "an advocate of open access issues and works for scholarly communications and scholarly publishing projects." At IUB, he has served as Chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and as Director of the Folklore Institute. According to the Journal of American Folklore, "Jason Baird Jackson establishes himself as one of the foremost scholars in American Indian studies today."

Jason Jackson was born in 1969.

He received his B.A. in sociology from University of Florida in 1990 with a minor in anthropology. He earned his M.A. degrees in cultural anthropology and in folklore, as well as his Ph.D. degree in anthropology from Indiana University Bloomington.

Jackson was Curator of Anthropology at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1995–2000) and Assistant Curator of Ethnology at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman, Oklahoma (2000–2004). He remains a Research Associate at SNOMNH.

A noted scholar in the tradition of Boasian anthropology, Dr. Jackson's research interests include the following areas: (1) folklore and ethnology (intellectual and cultural property issues, folklore and folklife, material culture, religion, ritual, cultural change, ethnohistory, music and dance, ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, social organization, social theory, history of folkloristics and anthropology), (2) linguistic anthropology (verbal art, oratory, language shift, language ideologies, theories of performance, language and culture), (3) curatorship (community collaboration, exhibitions, collections management), (4) American and native American studies (Eastern North America).

Dr. Jackson's ethnographic and historical work has focused on the life of the Yuchi, a Native American people residing today in Oklahoma, USA. He has published and edited several books on Native American topics, including Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community. He has also published numerous articles based on his studies of Native American ethnography and folklore. Dr. Jackson has additionally spent time as an editor of the Journal of Folklore Research.

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