JAMES S. JACKSON
Professor, Psychology, University of Michigan.
Director, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan.
Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education, University of Michigan.
Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan.
James S. Jackson is Director of the Instititute for Social Research and a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute on Aging. His research focuses on issues of racial and ethnic influences on life course development, attitude change, reciprocity, social support, and coping and health among African Americans. Research efforts include carrying out a number of national surveys and one international survey of black populations. Teaching centers on social factors in health, race and racism, and sources of misdiagnosis in black populations.
Funded Aging Projects
- Family Connection Across Generations and Nations (NIA)
- Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging (NIA)
- Ethnic Group Differences in Mental Health Disparities (NIMH)
- African American Mental Health Research Program (NIMH)
- MCUAAAR Minority Supplement: Briggett Ford (NIA)
- Current Challenges in Inter-Generational Family Relations (NIA)
- Social Relations and Mental Health (NIA)
- Trajectories of Subjective Well-Being and Ethnicity in Old Age (NIA)
- National Survey of American Life (NIMH)
- Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) (NCMHHD)
Publications
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