Kern Michael Jackson is the African American Studies program director and an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Jackson was the former curator of minority history for the Museum of Mobile, and was the project coordinator for the City of Mobile’s Tri-centennial Celebration Video Oral History Project. He holds a doctorate in Folklore from Indiana University-Bloomington and a Master’s in African American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An active lecturer in the areas of oral history, material culture, and literary folkloristics, Dr. Jackson is the co-writer and co-producer of the international award-winning documentary Descendant, and he is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Listening to the Wise Ones: Personal Narrative as a Window into Traditional Black Neighborhoods in Mobile, AL.
