Justin F. Jackson

Justin F. Jackson is Associate Professor of History at Bard College at Simon's Rock, specializing in U.S. history, global history, and the history of military occupations. His forthcoming book The Work of Empire (UNC Press, 2025) examines labor relations during American occupations of Cuba and the Philippines.

Research analyzes military governance as an instrument of imperialism, exploring how occupation policies shaped capitalist transitions and racial hierarchies. Jackson's work has been supported by the Doris Quinn Foundation, Harvard's Charles Warren Center, and the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations.

Teaching includes first-year seminars on modernity, surveys of U.S. and world history, and specialized courses on Cuba-U.S. relations and American radicalism. He co-teaches "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Color Line" with Professor Francisca Oyogoa and served on Great Barrington's Du Bois Legacy Committee.