Titles:

Professor of Geography
Director, Regional Research Institute, 2002-present
President-elect, Southern Regional Science Association, 2011

Adjunct Appointments:

Professor, Economics, University of Pittsburgh
Professor, Geography, The Ohio State University
Professor, Economics, West Virginia University
Professor, Resource Management, West Virginia University
 
Education:

Ph.D., Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Miscellaneous:

  Curriculum vitae
   Final Report - "Valuing Domestically Produced Natural Gas & Oil"
   Presenting the Miernyk Award to Peter Schaeffer, 2008
   The 2007 David E. Boyce Award

Research Interests:

Regional economic development, technological change, industrial clustering, steel industry dynamics, interregional trade, regional econometric/ input-output modeling, and socioeconomic energy and environmental systems simulation.

Biography:

Dr. Jackson joined the West Virginia University faculty as Regional Research Institute Director and Professor of Geology and Geography in January 2002.  Previous appointments include the Geography department and the Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University and the department of Geography at The Ohio State University.  While at OSU, he also served two years as Associate Director for Research Computing. Dr. Jackson’s research interests center on regional economic health, performance, development, and sustainability with topics ranging from regional economic development strategies through the refinement and reformulation of regional economic modeling frameworks to interregional trade and conjoined macroeconomic energy and environmental modeling.  He has been involved in a wide variety of funded research projects with support from the National Science Foundation, the US Departments of Commerce, Energy and Agriculture, and the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation, among others.  He has published in a wide range of academic journals, and is a past member of the editorial board of The Professional Geographer and Papers in Regional Science, and a current member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Regional Science, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, and Geographical Analysis, where he is also an Executive Committee member.  He has participated on NSF review panels, and is on the Board of Directors for the Western Regional Science Association.  Dr. Jackson was the 2006-2007 Chair of the North American Regional Science Council and Council Member for the Southern Regional Science Association, and recently received the David E. Boyce Award for distinguished service to the Regional Science Association International, where he served as the editor of the Association's Newsletter, and established and maintained its primary Internet web site. He holds Adjunct Professorships in Economics and Resource Economics at WVU, Geography at The Ohio State University and Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.