Dr. Njeri Jackson

Special assistant for diversity office of the provost

Contact information

Harris Hall, room 5148
PO Box 842015
Richmond, VA 23284-2015
(804) 828-1142
(804) 828-1665 fax
mjackson@vcu.edu

Education

PhD in political science, Clark-Atlanta University

Biographical statement

Dr. Njeri Jackson is Associate Professor of Political Science and is an affiliate faculty member of the department of African American studies. She currently serves as Special Assistant for Diversity in the Office of the Provost. Dr. Jackson earned her B.A. in political science at Georgia State University and her M.A. and doctorate at Clark-Atlanta University. She has taught introductory and advanced courses in political science, African American studies, women's studies, and in preventive medicine and community health. Dr. Jackson served as Director and then Chair of the Department of African American Studies from 1998-2007. Jackson is co-editor of “African-Americans and the New Policy Consensus: Retreat of the Liberal State.” She is also a poet whose poem, “Hear Voices,” is engraved on the African American monument at the site of Richmond’s Civil War Museum (formerly the Valentine Riverside Museum). Her research and publishing focus on race, gender and politics, and on public policy and health care.

Research interests

Dr. Jackson currently is working on two articles. The first is based on research funded by the Commonwealth Neurotrauma Initiative. This was a collaborative project with Michelle Meade in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. They conducted qualitative and quantitative research on the needs, challenges and strengths of persons with spinal chord injury. This project focused on women and children, and African American, Hispanic, and Asian American populations. The second article considers the historic role of race and gender in presidential elections. She also is working on a book on decision-making for African American women with cancer.

Representative publications

M. Njeri Jackson, et. al.. 2006. “Vocational Rehabilitation Services for Indivduals with Spinal Cord Injury.” Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. Vol. 25 No. 1: 3-12.

M. Njeri Jackson, et. al.. 2006. “Work Intensity and Variations in Health and Personal Characteristics of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI).” Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. Vol. 25 No. 1: 13-20.

M. Njeri Jackson, et. al.. 2006. “Perspectives on Networking, Cultural Values, and Skills Among African American Men with Spinal Cord Injury: A Reconsideration of Social Capital Theory. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. Vol. 25 No. 1: 21-34.

M. Njeri Jackson. 2003. “Fathering Injustice: Racial Patriarchy and the Dismantling of Affirmative Action.” Western Journal of Black Studies. Volume 27, Number 1 (Spring 2003): 51-56

M. Njeri Jackson. “The Liberal State: What Retreat? An Examination of Philosophical Am
bivalence and Continuity in Perspectives and Treatment of African Americans in the U.S. Political System,” reprinted in Claude W. Barnes, Samuel A. Moseley, and James D. Steele, American National and State Government - An African American View of the Return of Redemptionist Politics. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1997: 5-17.

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