BOOKS:

 Jackson, Shirley A.  2002.  A New Perspective.  An Introduction to Sociology: A guide for students enrolled in introductory-level sociology courses.  Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.

CHAPTERS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

Jackson, Shirley A. 1997. "There's Something About the Word": Feminism and African American Women. Pp. 38-45 in Radical Women, edited by Kathleen Blee. New York: New York University Press.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Encyclopedia Entries:

Jackson, Shirley A. 1999. "Attica Prison Rebellion." Encyclopedia of Civil Rights History. Edited by Patricia A. Sullivan and Waldo Martin. Boston: Macmillan.

Reviews and Essays:

Jackson, Shirley A.  2003.  “Otherness” in Times of War, Remarks, Newsletter of the American Sociological Association Section on Racial Ethnic Minorities.  

Jackson, Shirley A.  2002.  “Analyzing the War Against Terrorism, Remarks, Newsletter of the American Sociological Association Section on Racial Ethnic Minorities.  

Jackson, Shirley A.  2002.  Exploring the Status of Women in Cuba.  Sex and Gender Network News, Newsletter of the American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender.  

Jackson, Shirley A.  1998.  Color Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race Obsessed World, by Ellis Cose.  Southern Changes, 20:29-30.

 Jackson, Shirley A.  1998.  Notes of a Racial-Caste Baby, by Bryan K. Fair.  Southern Changes, 20:27-29.

Reviewer for Journals:

Contemporary Sociology

Gender and Society 

Qualitative Sociology

Southern Changes

Reviewer for Books:

Lynne Rienner Publishers . Inequalities: Readings in Diversity and Social Life, Pearson Custom Publishing, 2004.

Other:

Jackson, Shirley A. 2003-.  Reviewer, Diversity Editorial Board.  Pearson Custom Publishing.  Boston, MA.

Jackson, Shirley A. 2003.  Race, Class, and Gender.  In Teaching Race, Class, and Gender Resource Manual, American Sociological Association: Washington, D.C. 

Jackson, Shirley A.  2001.  Social Problems.  In Teaching Social Problems Resource Manual, American Sociological Association: Washington, D.C.  

BOOK REVIEWS:

Jackson, Shirley A. 1998. "Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race Obsessed World, by Ellis Cose. Southern Changes, 20:29-30.

Jackson, Shirley A. 1998. Notes of a Racial Caste Baby, by Bryan K. Fair. Southern Changes, 20: 27-29.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED, SESSIONS MODERATED:  

Presenter, "Approval to Stereotype: The Role of the Media in Cartoon Images of Racial/Ethnic Minorities". Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 12, 2005.

Presenter, “How Do I Look?: Race/Ethnic Themes in Political Cartoons”. National Association for Ethnic Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 19, 2005.

Presenter, “A Color-Blind Society? Race, Revolutions, and Social Movements in Cuba and the U.S.”  New England Sociological Association Fall 2004 conference. Endicott College, Beverly, MA, November 6, 2004. \

Organizer, “Internationalism, Imperialism, and Diasporas: Global Race, Gender, and Class Issues.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, August 16, 2004.

Roundtable Panelist, “’What’s So Funny?’: Portrayals of Race and Ethnic Themes in Political Cartoons during Three Periods.” American Sociological Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, August 16, 2004.

“Don’t Make Me Laugh: Historical and Social Portrayals of Gender, Race, and Ethnic Themes in Political Cartoons.” Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meetings, San Francisco, California, August 13, 2004.

“Lifespan Sexual Identity of A Transgendered Individual.”  Association of Black Sociologists Annual Meetings, Chicago, Illinois, August 17, 2002.  

Commentary, “Comments on Ron Aminzade’s “Oh the Times They are a-Changing: Transitions in Higher Education for Chairs to Note.”  American Sociological Association Chair Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 15, 2002.

“Race is in the Eye of the Beholder”: Exploring the Concept of Race in Present Day Cuba.  Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, March 9, 2002.

“Women of Color in the Profession.”  Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, March 9, 2002.

“Growing Up Female”: Mentoring Programs and the Socialization of American Adolescent Girls.  A New Girl Order: Young Women and the Future of Feminist Inquiry conference, Monash Centre, Kings College, London, England, November 16, 2001.

“Learning to “Be” a Girl: Gender Socialization and Mentoring Programs for Girls.  Referred Roundtable on Production and Performance of Race, Gender and Class.  American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Anaheim, California, August 19, 2001.

Organizer, Presider and Discussant, “Service Learning: Prospects and Problems.”  Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, August 18, 2001

 “Growing Up Female”: Self-Esteem, Growth and Empowerment.  Presented at the Association of Black Sociologists Annual Conference, Anaheim, California, August 17, 2001.

“A Community of Women”: Mentoring Programs and Adolescent Social Development.  Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 2, 2001.

“Where the Girls Are”: African American Girls and Mentoring Programs.  Presented at the Tenth Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Women of African Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, October 6, 2000.

 "Out of the Classroom and Into the Community." Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 14, 2000.

"Native Son: Politics, Immigration, and the Case of Elian Gonzalez." Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 12, 2000.

"By LEAPs and Upward Bounds: Early Intervention Education Programs and Minority Youth" (revised version of ESS Paper). Presented at the New England Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, Connecticut, April 29, 2000.

"Technology in the Classroom." Presented at the New England Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, Connecticut, April 29, 2000.

"'It's a Girl Thing': Self-Esteem, Growth, and Empowerment Building in Mentoring Programs for Young Girls." Presented at the 3rd Annual Conference on Gender Issues in Current Scholarship: Works-in Progress, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, April 1, 2000.

"By LEAPs and Upward Bounds: Early Intervention Education Programs and Minority Youth." Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2-5, 2000.

"Will it Go 'Round in Circles?": Social Change and Racial Inequality in the U.S. Presented at the Association of Black Sociologists Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 4, 1999.

"Marginal Women: Women of Color in the U.S. and Women's Studies Programs. "Presented at Women's Studies for a New Millennium: A Regional Colloquium. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, May 1, 1999.

"Community Activism: 'What a Difference an Organization Makes'." Presented at the New England Sociological Association Spring Conference, Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island, April 24, 1999.

Contemporary African American Women in Social Movements. "Feminist Days of Action," Women's History Month Lecture Series. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program, Bowling Green State University, March 11, 1997.

"African American Women, Feminism and Empowerment." Honors Program Speaker Series, Bowling Green State University, February 25, 1997.

"'We Don't Need to March' : Integrating African American Women into Social Movement Discourse." Presented at the National Council for Black Studies Conference, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., November 14-17, 1996.

"'An Unshakable Conviction': African American Women as Up-Lifters of the Community." Presented at the "Century of Challenge, Century of Change: African American Women and their Organizations, 1896-1996" Lecture Series, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, February 12, 1996.

"African American Women's Volunteerism: Setting the Agenda." Presented at the Association for Research on Non-Profit and Volunteer Action (ARNOVA) Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, November 2-4, 1995.

"Community and Individual Empowerment: African American Women as Activists." Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Cultural Association/Popular Culture Conference Meeting, Syracuse, New York, November 3-5, 1995.

"African American Women and Empowerment: Self-Esteem, Self-Help, and Self-Awareness Through Grassroots Organizing." Presented at the Association of Bl ack Sociologists Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 17-19, 1995.

"Community Activism and African American Women: Challenging Myths and Creating Opportunities." Presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 6-9, 1995.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER:

New England Sociological Association Spring Conference, April 24, 2004.  Southern Connecticut State University.

New England Sociological Association Fall Conference, November 6, 2004. Endicott College.

WORKSHOP LEADER:

Workshop Facilitator, "Managing Conflict" (with Kathleen Slobin, North Dakota State University). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, August 13, 2004.

Workshop Facilitator, “Teaching Race and Ethnicity.”  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, August 20, 2001.

"Racial Solidarity and Coalition Building." Second Annual Variations Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

Faculty Development Advisory Committee Grant, Southern Connecticut State University.  Project: Striving for Course Consistency: A Workshop for the Department of Sociology, 2004.

Faculty Development Advisory Committee Grant, Southern Connecticut State University. Project: Funding for New England Sociological Association Spring Meeting on the Campus of Southern Connecticut State University, 2004.

Curriculum Related Grant.  Faculty Development Advisory Committee, Southern Connecticut State University. Project: Development of Materials for SOC 316: Women of the Third World, 2003.

Conversations in the Discipline Grant. Connecticut State University.  Project: En(Gendering) Women's Studies in the CSU System, 2002.

Minority Recruitment and Retention  Committee Research Related Grant. Southern Connecticut State University.  Project: Travel to Cuba, 2002.

Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee Research Related Grant.  Southern Connecticut State University. Project: People to People Ambassadors Program Sociology Delegation to Cuba, 2001.

Conversations in the Discipline Grant. Connecticut State University.  Project: Internships, Service-Learning, and Community Based Research, 2001 (Event held Fall 2002).

Curriculum Related Activities Grant. Faculty Development Advisory Committee, Southern Connecticut State University.  Project: Revision and Development of Materials for Internship in Sociology, 2001.

Faculty Development Grant. Faculty Development Advisory Committee, Southern Connecticut State University.  Co-authored with Rita Landino for SCSU-AAUP Committee W.  Project: Gender and Salary Equity.  Visit to SCSU by Professor Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Presentation: Gender and Salary Equity),  2001.  (Event held Spring 2001).

Faculty Development Grant. Faculty Development Advisory Committee, Southern Connecticut State University. Project: Visit to SCSU by Professor Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine (Presentation: Hate Crime Legislation and the Criminalization of Bigotry), 2000.  (Event held Fall 2001).

Faculty Development Office.  Yale University Library Card. 2000.

Faculty Development Fund. Faculty Development Advisory Committee, Southern Connecticut State University, 2000.

Connecticut State University Research Grant, 2000. Project: "Where the Girls Are: An Exploratory Study of Mentoring Programs for Girls."

Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1999. Project: "By LEAPs and Upward Bounds: An Analysis of Two Early Intervention Programs."

Minority Recruitment and Retention Grant. Southern Connecituct State University. 1999.

NEH Summer Institute. "Teaching the History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: 1865-1965." Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1997.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Sociological Association

Association of Black Sociologists

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Sociologists for Women in Society

Eastern Sociological Society

New England Sociological Association

PROFESSIONAL OFFICES:

Social Action Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2005-

Rose Laub Coser Award Committee, Eastern Sociological Society, 2004

President, New England Sociological Association, 2003-2004

Publications Committee, American Sociological Association, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 2002-2005

President-Elect, New England Sociological Association, 2002-2003

Chair, American Sociological Association, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2002-2003

Chair-Elect, American Sociological Association, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2001-2002

Association of Black Sociologists, Undergraduate and Graduate Student Paper Awards Committee, 1999-

American Sociological Association, Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Section on Sex & Gender, 2000-2002.

Society for the Study of Social Problems, Standards and Freedom of Research, Publication and Teaching Committee, 2000-2003

New England Sociological Association, Corresponding Secretary, 2000-2002

American Sociological Association, Oliver Cromwell Cox Awards Committee, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 1999-2002

OTHER:

Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2003-2004.

Who’s Who in America. 2003-2004, 2004-2005.

Who’s Who International, 2005-2006.

Who’s Who of Women in Education 2005-2006.

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

African American women and activism

Mentoring programs and youth

Community-based research and activism

Gender

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: 

Race and ethnicity, gender, social movements

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

My research interests are quite varied.  My primary research project is an examination of editorial cartoons during three historical periods: WWII, Civil Rights, and Post-September 11, 2001. I have presented preliminary findings of this research at several conferences and am in the process of finding a book publisher.

Two other projects involve completing a study I began on a transgendered female-to-male and continuing my work on skin color in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution. As regards the latter project, I have been working on arranging an academic travel program for faculty and students to Cuba. 

My other research interests explore the impact of mentoring programs on young girls. This research focuses specifically on those programs that are geared towards young women of color.

The project that I hope to work on in the future involves an examination of the activism of Palestinian, Egyptian, and South African women. The way in which women "do" activism under various social and cultural conditions is one that intrigues me. I hope to write a grant that would allow me to travel to the aforementioned areas.

HONOR'S THESIS ADVISEMENT:

John A. Lynch, "Mentoring and Academic Success: An Evaluation of the L.E.A.P. Mentoring Program." 2000.

GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEMENT:

Karen Broyles, Dysfunctional social relationships and behavior of lesbian and gay youth : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science, 2002.

Sharon Sanderson, Where are the Nurses? An Exploratory Analysis of Television's Role in the Nursing Shortage : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science, 2004.

Patricia Anekwe, Childbearing Patterns of Immigrant Nigerian Women in the United States: a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science, 2005.

DISSERTATION TITLE:

"Sisters are Doing it for Themselves": The Activism of African American Women In Contemporary African American Women's Organizations

INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.:

University of California, Santa Barbara