Profile
Dr. Marion Jackson
313-577-1801
ac2540@wayne.edu
2155 Faculty/Administration Building
Biography
Marion (Mame) Jackson, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Professor of Art History teaches African American Art History, Theory and Methods of Art Historical Research, and Introduction to Art. She was on the faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, before coming to Wayne State in 1995 as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History. Her primary research interests are in Native North American art and the arts of the African Diaspora; she has undertaken extensive fieldwork in the Canadian Arctic and in Northeast Brazil. Jackson has curated international touring exhibitions of contemporary Canadian Inuit art for the National Art Gallery of Canada the Canadian Museum of Civilization and is co-founder of Con/Vida – Popular Arts of the Americas (www.convida.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting understanding for the diverse cultures of the Americas through the arts. Dr. Jackson’s work has been supported by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities; U.S. National Endowment for the Arts; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Secretariat for Culture and Tourism, Bahia, Brazil; and other agencies, and she held a Fulbright fellowship in Bahia, Brazil, in 2000-01.