Department of History

Maurice Jackson teaches courses on the Atlantic, African-Americans, Washington, DC, social movements and Jazz history. He is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Performing Arts (Music). He formally came to academe later than most having spent a good part of his early adulthood as a community and progressive organizer. He has also been a longshoreman and a rigger in his hometown of Newport News, Virginia and a house painter and construction worker in Washington, DC.

http://history.georgetown.edu/resources/deptnewsletters/HistoryNewsltr2008.pdf

In April of 2009, he was inducted into the Washington, DC Hall of Fame for his years of service to the people of the Nation’s capital.