Monica Christine Jackson is an American statistician and academic administrator, the deputy provost and dean of faculty at

American University The American University (AU or American) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90-acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spri ...

. Her research focuses on

spatial statistics Spatial statistics is a field of applied statistics dealing with spatial data. It involves stochastic processes (random fields, point processes), sampling, smoothing and interpolation, regional ( areal unit) and lattice ( gridded) data, poin ...

and disease monitoring.

Education and career

Jackson is

African American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

, originally from

Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri, abbreviated KC or KCMO, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by List of cities in Missouri, population and area. The city lies within Jackson County, Missouri, Jackson, Clay County, Missouri, Clay, and Pl ...

, and has two brothers, one her twin. She loved mathematics from a very young age, 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,

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. She majored in mathematics at

Clark Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded on September19, 1865, as Atlanta University, it was the first HBCU in the South ...

, graduating in 1992, and continued there for a master's degree in 1994. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2003 at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD i ...

, with the dissertation '' Spatial Data Analysis for Discrete Data on a Lattice'' supervised by Estelle Russek-Cohen. Postdoctoral research at

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

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

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). Her research articles include: * * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Monica C. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians American women statisticians 21st-century African-American scientists African-American women scientists Educators from Kansas City, Missouri Scientists from Kansas City, Missouri Clark Atlanta University alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni American University faculty