Fatima Linda Collier Jackson
Personal Information
Born: 1950
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: Black
Education
Cornell University BA 1972 Biology, MA 1978, PhD 1981 Anthropology
Professional Life
Field of Study: Biological Anthropology
Institution/Corporation: University of North Carolina, Professor, 2009 - Present; W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory, Director, 2013 - Present; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor, 2009 - 2013; Institute of African American Research, Director, 2009 - 2013 ;University of Maryland, College Park, Professor Emerita, 1990 - 2011; University of Florida, Associate Professor, 1986 - 1990; University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor, 1981 - 1986;
Degrees & Memberships: none
Awards & Achievements
Awards: Senior Fulbright Fellow in Eygpt; 2009, Nick Norgan Award; 20121, Ernest E. Just Prize, Avery Research Institute;2020, Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists; 1995, Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award, University of Maryland; 2017, STEM Woman Researcher of the Year, Howard University; 2017, Outstanding Service Award, Dept of Biology Howard University
Achievements: dissertation research was on the genetics of malaria in Liberia
Father died when she was 6
Attended elementary-high schools that were predominantly African-American
Spent years doing research in Africa
Taught at the University of Maryland for 20 years
Has appeared on PBS programs, African-American Lives & Nova; BBC's, Motherland
Studies genetic changes in human evolution due to cultural migration & influence of phytochemicals on human metabolic effects
2020, 1st African-American female recipient of the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists