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Dr. Gwendolyn Bethea
Director of Communications
Email:
gbethea@howard.edu
Phone:
(202) 806-7277
Howard University
Graduate School
4th and College Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20059
Phone:
(202) 806-6800
Fax:
(202) 462-4053
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James S. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, and Director of the Institute for Social Research, all at the University of Michigan, will be the keynote speaker at the Graduate School’s Hood Presentation Ceremony. The ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, May 10, 2012 in Cramton Auditorium at 2:00 p.m.
Dr. Jackson's research focuses on issues of racial and ethnic influences on life course development, attitude change, reciprocity, social support, and coping and health among blacks in the Diaspora.
He is past Director of the Center for Afro American and African Studies and past national president of the Black Students Psychological Association and Association of Black Psychologists. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, American Psychological Association, and recently received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career Contributions in Applied Psychology from the Association for Psychological Sciences. He is an elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences.
He is currently directing the most extensive social, political behavior, and mental and physical health surveys on the African American and Black Caribbean populations ever conducted, "The National Survey of American Life" and the "The Family Survey across Generations and Nations", and the National Science Foundation and Carnegie Corporation supported "National Study of Ethnic Pluralism and Politics". Recent publications include "African Americans in a Diversifying Nation," and "Age cohort, ancestry, and immigration status influences on family relations and psychological well-being among three generation Caribbean black families". Journal of Social Issues, 63 (4), 729-743, 2007. He serves on several boards for the National Research Council and the National Academies of Science and is a founding member of the new "Aging Society Research Network" of the MacArthur Foundation.
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James S. Jackson
Keynote Speaker
Howard University,
Graduate School
2012 Hood Ceremony
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