From fall 2005 through summer 2009, Jason Baird Jackson served as editor of the journal Museum Anthropology, which is published by the Council for Museum Anthropology as part of the publishing program of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Like all AAA journals, Museum Anthropology is presently published in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, which maintains the journal’s website. Find the official MUA site here. During the period in which the journal was hosted by the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, four talented doctoral students sequentially filled the position of editorial assistant–Hilary Virtenen, Gabrielle Berlinger, Carrie Hertz and Janice Frisch. Numerous other members of the department contributed reviews and other materials to the journal during this period.
The IU Symposium on Dress and Adornment was a campus conference organized by Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe, Pravina Shukla and Jason Baird Jackson and held at the Wylie House Museum [April 18, 2008] and the Indiana Memorial University [April 19, 2008]. It featured presentations from faculty and graduate students drawn from the IU departments of anthropology, apparel merchandising and interior design, folklore and ethnomusicology and history of art. The symposium was held in conjunction with the opening on the Wylie House Museum exhibition What Women Wore: Clothing and Accessories of the 19th Century. The symposium program is archived here.
Anthropology of/in Circulation: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies is a collaboratively written paper appearing in the journal Cultural Anthropology [23.3] in 2008. It explored the concurrent and connected changes unfolding in scholarly publishing and in the social organization of scholarly societies. It touches on a number of specific points related to developments within the American Anthropological Association and is focused on the ramifications of the emergence of diverse forms of open access publishing and on the implication of new digital technologies. The paper is available as an OA download in IUScholarWorks Repository here and, potentially more interestingly, in CommentPress format here.
