Fatimah Jackson

Who is Fatimah Jackson?

Fatimah Jackson is an African-American biologist and anthropologist who is a professor of biological anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Cornell University. She became professor emerita of applied biological anthropology at the University of Maryland after teaching there for 20 years. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award from the University of Maryland in 1995.

Jackson served as director of UNC's Institute of African American Research from 2009 to 2011. Her research on peoples of recent African-descent also led to appearances on the PBS program African American Lives and the BBC's Motherland. She is a convert to Islam and believes that the evolution theory and religion do not contradict each other.