Monica C. Jackson

Monica Christine Jackson is an American statistician and academic administrator, the deputy provost and dean of faculty at American University. Her research focuses on spatial statistics and disease monitoring. ^[1]

Education and career

Jackson is African American, originally from Kansas City, Missouri, ^[2] and has two brothers, one her twin. ^[3] She loved mathematics from a very young age, ^[2] and after growing bored with the public school mathematics curriculum available to her, transferred in middle school to a more demanding program at a Catholic girls' school, Notre Dame de Sion. ^[3] She majored in mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, graduating in 1992, and continued there for a master's degree in 1994. ^[4] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2003 at the University of Maryland, College Park, with the dissertation Spatial Data Analysis for Discrete Data on a Lattice supervised by Estelle Russek-Cohen. ^[5]

Postdoctoral research at Emory University led her to her focus on the spatial statistics of disease monitoring. ^[3] She joined American University as an assistant professor of statistics in 2005. She earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2011. ^[4] After becoming a full professor, and associate dean of undergraduate studies, she was appointed as deputy provost and dean of faculty in 2021. ^[6]

Selected publications

Jackson is a coauthor of the book Elementary Statistics: A Guide to Data Analysis Using R (Cognella, 2022, with Nancy Glenn-Griesinger and Daniel Vrinceanu). ^[3]

Her research articles include:

• Jackson, Monica C; Huang, Lan; Luo, Jun; Hachey, Mark; Feuer, Eric (2009), "Comparison of tests for spatial heterogeneity on data with global clustering patterns and outliers", International Journal of Health Geographics, 8 (1) 55, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, doi: 10.1186/1476-072x-8-55 , PMC   2770045 , PMID   19822013
• Jackson, Monica C.; Huang, Lan; Xie, Qian; Tiwari, Ram C. (2010), "A modified version of Moran's I", International Journal of Health Geographics, 9 (1) 33, doi: 10.1186/1476-072x-9-33 , PMC   2903534 , PMID   20587045
• Arab, Ali; Jackson, Monica C.; Kongoli, Cezar (March 2014), "Modelling the effects of weather and climate on malaria distributions in West Africa", Malaria Journal, 13 (1) 126, doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-126 , PMID   24678602

References

1. "Monica Jackson", Faculty, American University, retrieved 2025-02-19
2. "Monica Jackson", Black History Month 2019 Honorees, Mathematically Gifted & Black, February 2019, retrieved 2025-02-19
3. "Monica Jackson", A Statistician's Life, AmStat News, American Statistical Association, 3 February 2025, retrieved 2025-02-19
4. Curriculum vitae (PDF), American University, 2016, retrieved 2025-02-19
5. Monica C. Jackson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. Starr, Peter (1 July 2021), Deputy Provost and Dean of Faculty, American University Office of the Provost, retrieved 2025-02-19