Jason Baird Jackson (born 1969) is an American anthropologist who is Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington.
[5] A scholar in the tradition of Boasian anthropology,[6] Jackson's research interests include the following areas: (1) folklore and ethnology (intellectual and cultural property issues, folklore and folklife, material culture, religion, ritual, cultural change, ethnohistory, music and dance, ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, social organization, social theory, history of folkloristics and anthropology), (2) linguistic anthropology (verbal art, oratory, language shift, language ideologies, theories of performance, language and culture), (3) curatorship (community collaboration, exhibitions, collections management), (4) American and native American studies (Eastern North America).
[7] Jackson's ethnographic and historical work has focused on the life of the Yuchi, a Native American people residing today in Oklahoma, USA.
[8] He has also published numerous articles based on his studies of Native American ethnography and folklore.
[13] In June 2001, Jackson was awarded a Post-Ph.D. Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation "to aid archival and ethnographic field research on the role that social dance, musical performance, and cultural performances more generally, play in the network connecting the Woodland Indian communities of central and eastern Oklahoma into a regional system of exchange.