John L. Jackson, Jr.

Walter H. Annenberg Dean, The Annenberg School for Communication

Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division

Richard Perry University Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Contact

dean@asc.upenn.edu

(215) 898-7041

Programs

Education, Culture, and Society M.S.Ed.

Education, Culture, and Society Ph.D.

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John L. Jackson, Jr. is the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication. His research examines ethnographic methods in media analysis, the impact of mass media on urban life, media-making as a form of community-building and knowledge production, globalization and the remaking of ethnic/racial diasporas, visual studies, urban anthropology, critical race theory, and ethnographic film.