Jonathan C. Jackson
Ph.D. Candidate Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles 2003
M.A. Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles 2001
B.A. Anthropology
University of California, Irvine 1996
Office: Haines 330
Phone: (310) 801-4081
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
jacksonj@ucla.edu
Subfield
Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests
Dissertation: Death Rites and the Social Worth of Persons in Rural and Urban Shaanxi, The People's Republic of China 2003-2005
Masters: Colonialism, Nationalism and the Persecution of the Sino-Vietnamese
Grants and Awards
Pacific Rim Scholarship 1994-95
UCLA Anthropology Departmental Fellowship 1998-2000
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship 2000-2001
Departmental Summer Research Grant 2002-2003
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship 2003-2004
Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Year Fellowship 2003-2004
Advisors
Professor Joseph Esherick
Professor Nancy E. Levine
Professor Mariko Tamanoi
Professor Yunxiang Yan (Chair)
Conference Presentations
March 2006: “Chinese Death Practices in the Funeral Reform Era” Paper presented at the Center for Chinese Studies (Los Angeles, CA)
January 2006: “Replacing the Ancestors: The Intersection of Space and Social Hierarchy under Funeral Reform in the People’s Republic of China.” Paper presented at the James Young Colloquium (Riverside, CA)
January 2006: “Reforming the Ancestors: Death and the State in The People's Republic of China” Paper presented at the Culture, Power, and Social Change UCLA Anthropology Working Group (Los Angeles, CA)
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