Antoinette T. Jackson is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa.^[1] Her research focusses on sociocultural and historical anthropology, the social construction of race, class, gender, ethnicity; heritage resource management, and American, African American and African Diaspora culture.^[2]

Jackson studied for a BA in Computer and Information Science at Ohio State University, an MBA at Xavier University. She received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Florida,^[3] with her dissertation entitled "African Communities in Southeast Coastal Plantation Spaces in America".^[4]

Jackson published a monograph in 2012 entitled "Speaking for the Enslaved—Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites", which was described as a "critical intervention in the fields of cultural heritage management, cultural heritage tourism, and cultural preservation".^[5]

Jackson was the National Park Service Regional Ethnographer for the SE Region from 2012 to 2016.^[6] She is currently associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida.^[3]

Jackson's most recent book publication, in March 2020, is entitled "Heritage, tourism and race : the other side of leisure" ^[7]

She is the Director of the USF Heritage Research Lab^[8] and the editor of the journal Present Pasts.^[9]

2008. Imagining Jehossee Island Rice Plantation Today. International Journal of Heritage Studies 14:2, 131–155, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/13527250701855155

2010. Changing ideas about heritage and heritage resource management in historically segregated communities. Transforming Archaeology 18(1): 80–92.

2011. Shattering Slave Life Portrayals: Uncovering Subjugated Knowledge in U.S. Plantation Sites in South Carolina and Florida. American Anthropologist 113: 448–462. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01353.x

2011. Diversifying the dialogue post-Katrina—Race, place, and displacement in New Orleans, U.S.A.. Transforming Anthropology 19: 3–16. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01109.x

2012. Speaking for the Enslaved—Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites. Routledge.

2016. Exhuming the Dead and Talking to the Living: The 1914 Fire at the Florida Industrial School for Boys—Invoking the Uncanny as a Site of Analysis. Anthropology and Humanism 41: 158–177. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12141

2019. Remembering Jim Crow, again – critical representations of African American experiences of travel and leisure at U.S. National Park Sites, International Journal of Heritage Studies 25:7: 671–688. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1544920

2020. Heritage, tourism and race : the other side of leisure. Routledge. New York, NY. doi:10.4324/9781003029014