Regine Jackson

Regine O. Jackson is the Dean of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Division and Professor of Sociology at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Jackson has over 10 years of leadership experience in faculty development and academic affairs. Her professional background reflects a combination of experiences that have given her a unique perspective on the value of the humanities in higher education. Jackson is a sociologist who earned her BA from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Academic Affairs leadership team at Morehouse, she was the Assistant Vice President of Diversity Initiatives and Faculty Coordinator for Global Learning at Agnes Scott College, where she also chaired the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. And before that, she served as Director of Undergraduate Studies of the American Studies Program, in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She has also held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and faculty fellowships at Harvard University’s Du Bois Institute, the Salzburg Seminar in American studies, Boston University's Institute on Race & Social Division, the Open Society Institute at Vilnius University in Lithuania, and the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Cultures. Jackson specializes in Haitian migration and diaspora studies, sociology of race and place, global learning, and spatial inequality. She is the editor of Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora (Routledge, 2011) and The Context of Black Lives: Race and Space in Two American Cities; and author of Boston Haitians: Navigating Race, Place and Belonging in a Majority-Minority City. Other work has been published in interdisciplinary journals and edited volumes. She has received research grants and awards from the American Sociological Association, Social Science Research Council, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ford Foundation, Spencer Foundation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently the President of the Haitian Studies Association (HSA). For the last 23 years, she has lived and worked in Atlanta. She has three adult children – the only topics she enjoys talking about more than the transformative power of higher education, small liberal arts colleges, and HBCUs.