Table 1.
Selected Positions, Honors and Major Surveys by James S. Jackson
| Selected Positions | |
| 1969 | President, Black Student Psychological Association |
| 1971–1986 | Assistant to Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan |
| 1972–1973 | President, Association of Black Psychologists |
| 1976–2020 | Founding Director, Program for Research on Black Americans, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan |
| 1982–2011 | Faculty Associate, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan |
| 1986–1995 | Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan |
| 1986–1988 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Groupe D’Etudes et de Recherches Sur La Science, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France |
| 1988–2005 | Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan |
| 1987–1992 | Associate Dean, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan |
| 1990–2000 | Director, African American Mental Health Research Center, University of Michigan |
| 1990–2007 | Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan |
| 1992–2003 | Chercheur Invite, Groupe D’Etudes et de Recherches Sur La Science, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France |
| 1995–2020 | Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan |
| 1996–2005 | Director, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan |
| 1998–2005 | Director, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan |
| 2005–2015 | Director, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan |
| 2016–2017 | Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Senior Fellow, New York, NY |
| Selected Awards and Honors | |
| 1983 | Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Award, American Psychological Association |
| 1989 | Fellow, American Psychological Association |
| 1989 | Fellow, Association for Psychological Science |
| 1991 | Fellow, Gerontological Society of America |
| 1994 | Robert W. Kleemeier Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research in Aging, Gerontological Society of America |
| 2000 | Peace and Social Justice Award, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, American Psychological Association |
| 2000 | Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award, University of Michigan |
| 2001 | Distinguished Career Contribution to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, American Psychological Association |
| 2002 –2005 | Member, Medical and Scientific Advisory Council, Alzheimer’s Association |
| 2002 | Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Science |
| 2003 | Mentoring Award, Minority Task Force, Gerontological Society of America (Renamed the James Jackson Outstanding Mentorship Award in 2021 and expanded to a society wide award). |
| 2003 | 21st Century Award for Achievement, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England |
| 2004 | Distinguished Mentorship in Gerontology Award, Behavioral and Social Science Section, Gerontological Society of America |
| 2005 | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 2006 | Distinguished Service Award, Social-Personality Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology |
| 2007 | James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Applied Psychology, Association for Psychological Science |
| 2007 | Fellow, International Demographic Association, St. Gallens, Switzerland |
| 2008 | Presidential Citation, American Psychological Association, for Dedicated Research, Scholarship, Service, and Leadership to the Discipline of Psychology |
| 2008 | Health Disparities Innovation Award, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health |
| 2008–2017 | Member, Aging Society Network, MacArthur Foundation |
| 2009 | Fellow, Society of Experimental Social Psychology |
| 2009–2013 | Member, NIH Director’s Advisory Committee |
| 2010 | Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
| 2010 | Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine |
| 2010 | Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Sciences, New York Academy of Medicine |
| 2011 | Pearmain Prize for Excellence in Research on Aging, Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, University of Southern California |
| 2010–2014 | Senior Health Policy Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
| 2012 | W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
| 2012 | Solomon Carter Fuller Award, the American Psychiatric Association |
| 2014–2020 | Member, National Science Board, National Science Foundation |
| 2015 | Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service in the Social Sciences, Inter-University Consortium in Social and Political Science Research, Institute for Social Research |
| 2015 | Life-Time Distinguished Service to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Award, SPSSI |
| 2016 | APA Award for Distinguished Service to Psychological Science |
| 2016–2020 | Member, Board of Trustees, Dartmouth College |
| 2017 | Distinguished Diversity Scholar Career Award (Renamed James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship), University of Michigan |
| 2017 | Emily Mumford Award, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University |
| 2017–2020 | Member, National Advisory Council, National Institute of Minority Health Disparities |
| 2018 | Rema Lapouse Award, Mental Health, Epidemiology, and Applied Public Health Statistics Sections, American Public Health Association |
| 2019 | Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research. |
| Major Data Collections and Studies | |
| 1979–1980 | The National Survey of Black Americans: (NSBA) |
| 1981 | The National Three Generation Family Study |
| 1987–1992 | The National Panel Survey of Black Americans II |
| 1984 | The National Survey of Black Youth |
| 1984–1988 | The National Black Election Study Panel |
| 1986 | Americans Changing Lives |
| 1988–1989 | International Perspectives on Racism |
| 1992–1994 | Detroit Psychiatric Institute Diagnostic Study |
| 1993–94 | The National Black Politics Survey |
| 1995 | Detroit Psychiatric Epidemiology and Detroit Area Survey |
| 1997 | International Perspectives on Racism |
| 2001–2003 | The National Survey of American Life: Coping with Stress in the 21st Century: (NSAL) |
| 2001–2003 | The National Survey of American Life – Reinterview (NSAL-RIW) |
| 2001–2003 | The National Survey of American Life – Adolescent Supplement (NSAL-A) |
| 2004–2004 | National Survey of American Life: Multi-Generational and Caribbean Cross-Section Studies, Guyana, Jamaica, |
| 2004 & 2008 | National Politics Study (NPS) |
| 2020 | Detroit Area Study of Covid-19 |
| 2021 | National Politics Study- Post Election |