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Cathy Jackson
Associate Professor, Norfolk State University
Location: Norfolk, VA United States
Joined: May 8th, 2008

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Cathy M. Jackson, associate professor at Norfolk State University, teaches courses in media writing, multiculturalism and the mass media, media ethics, film history and criticism, and the history of the African-Americans in movies. Her scholarly interests, which are related to the mass media, include its existence in the Old West, history, folklore, diversity, and coverage of Old West outlaws. She has published articles and book chapters, and her expertise on Jesse James, the 19th-century outlaw, won her the 2005 James-Younger Gang Milton Perry Award for Outstanding Research, in addition to an appearance on a 2006 American Experience documentary “Jesse James,” and 2011 segment of the Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum. Her career in newspapers included stints as a general assignment and features reporter at the Flint (Michigan) Journal and as a features reporter at the Tampa Tribune. She has freelanced for several publications, including ESSENCE Magazine, for which she wrote an article that earned her an invitation to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1988.

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Jackson State University class of 1979

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Offices • Elected to serve as vice president of the Faculty Senate, Norfolk State University, December 2012. Research presentations • Jackson, C.M. “It’s a Journey, Not a Destination: Sourcing in Diverse Communities and Politics.” Invited research presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Commission on the Status of Minorities, Washington, D.C., August 2013. • Jackson, C.M. “Through a Glass Darkly: A Historical Glimpse into the Internecine Racism of Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem.” Presented at the Association for Core Texts and Courses annual convention, Ottawa, Canada, April 2013. • Jackson, C.M. “Beyond Missouri, Beyond Death: Late 19th-Century Newspaper Provide Pattern for the Immortalization of Jesse James as Dime Novel Hero.” Presented at the American Journalism Historians Association convention, Raleigh, NC, October 2012. • Jackson, C.M. “Ladies or Wenches?: Black Women in Reconstruction Strove for One, Lived the Other.” Presented to the national convention of Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2012. • Jackson, C.M. “Chicago Giants of the Industry: Ida B. Wells, Bill Foster, and Oscar Micheaux.” Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications’ Media and Economics and Minorities and Communication divisions, Chicago, IL, August 2012. • Jackson, C.M. “Forever Undead: Hollywood’s Iconic American Outlaw Rides Into the Twilight of Another Day Spreading Teutonic Myths of Racial Superiority.” Presented to Multi Ethnic Society for Europe and the Americas, Barcelona, Spain, July 2012.

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I currently work with Norfolk State University as Associate Professor
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