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Lisa Jackson

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty
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Biography

Jackson earned a BA in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures Production at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, an MA in Gender in History from San Francisco State University, and, most recently, in December 2022, a PhD in US History, with a designated emphasis in Feminist Studies, from UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, "Twenty-Four Hour Party People: A Transnational History of Communist Bodies, 1919-1943," focuses on the radical body in early 20th-century United States and Great Britain through a study of Communist literature, correspondence, and visual culture.  Dr. Jackson has taught a wide variety of classes in US History, including Labor History and Teaching History with Comics, at UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State, and as part of her work as a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local #16.

Expertise

  • US history
  • Gender studies
  • Feminist studies

Research Areas

  • US history
  • Gender studies

Education

  • UC Santa Cruz, PhD in US History, with a designated emphasis in Feminist Studies, 2022
  • San Francisco State University, MA in Gender in History, 2015
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BA in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures Production, 1988

Prior Experience

  • Adjunct Professor in History, UC Berkeley
  • Adjunct Professor in History, UC Santa Cruz

Selected Publications

  • “Suffering Bodies: The Making and Unmaking of British and American Communist Manhood in the Interwar Period,” The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945.