Dr. Eric Jackson, Professor of History, NKU

          Dr. Eric R. Jackson, born in Gary, Indiana, received his BS from Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana, where he graduated in 1988, with a major in American History and minors in Afro-American Studies and Political Science. After a brief stint working for the Indiana General Assembly, he enrolled in the Graduate History Program at the University of Cincinnati, focusing Early American and African American history. He completed his doctorate in 2000, using an interdisciplinary approach of history and education. His dissertation examined the educational history of African Americans in Indianapolis, Indiana during the first half of the twentieth century.

          As an Assistant Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Jackson teaches courses in Early American History, African American Studies/History, the History of the New South, the History of the Civil Rights Movement, the Educational History of African Americans, and the History of Race Relations in the Americas. He serves on several university and community committees and boards, such as the Newsletter and Communication Committees of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and the Executive Board for the Urban Center for Peace Research, Implementation, Development, and Education at the University of Cincinnati. Within the local community, Dr. Jackson as taken part in several community programs and forums, such as a panel discussion on the New York City Historical Society's Lynching Exhibit, the History of Racial Violence in America, and the History/Activities of Ku Klux Klan in Midwest for WKRC-Channel 12 Newsmakers Program (December 2000), the "Let Freedom Ring" Project of First Unitarian Church of Cincinnati (2001) and the "Be A Star" Heinold (1998; 1999) after-school program.

          Dr. Jackson has published in several journals in multiple fields. Some of his works also has appeared in several multi-volume pieces, such as The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery and Organizing Black America: The Encyclopedia of African American Associations. Currently Professor Jackson is working on a book tentative titled Who Speaks: A Documentary History of African American Peace Leaders in the United States, 1898 to the 1960s, several articles on the educational history of Black Americans in Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as book on the same subject. He is recently married to his lovely wife, BJ.