Harvard Divinity School

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Faculty of Divinity

 

Michael D. Jackson

Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions

BA, Victoria University of Wellington
MA, Auckland University
PhD, Cambridge University

 

Professor Michael D. Jackson

faculty assistant

Michael D. Jackson came to Harvard in 2005, with ethnographic experience in Sierra Leone and Aboriginal Australia. His work has been strongly influenced by critical theory, American pragmatism, and existential-phenomenological thought. Through a direct engagement with the everyday situations and struggles that characterize human life in any society, irrespective of its specific historical and cultural conditions, the ethnographic method of participant-observation promises not only an extended and deeper understanding of ourselves in relation to others and otherness; it may provide new insights into the limits and possibilities of both comparative analysis and viable coexistence in a multiplex world. Professor Jackson's recent research on such topics as the politics of storytelling, postwar Sierra Leone, the anthropology of events, violence and sociality, and ritualization all figure in the courses he teaches.  

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