University of Richmond Professor Wins Ford Minority Fellowship

September 17, 2002

Regine O. Jackson, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Richmond, has received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities. She was one of 29 recent Ph.D. recipients and approximately 100 graduate students who received fellowships from a pool of nearly 1,000 candidates.

For the next 12 months, Jackson will be a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and will conduct research and write about her project, "The Haitian Community in Boston: Race, Religion and Ethnic Community Formation in Yankee City."

"Selection for this prestigious award reflects the review panelists' judgment of her professional and scholarly competence as well as the likelihood that her career will be enhanced by the postdoctoral fellowship experience," commented Thomas Rozzell, director of the National Research Council, which administers the fellowship.

Jackson, who joined the Richmond faculty in 2001, received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.