Joy J. Jackson

Joy J. Jackson

1928 - 1996

Degrees: BA, MA and Ph.D, all from Tulane University

-- Named an assistant professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University in 1966 after having previously taught history at Nicholls State in Thibodaux since 1961. Promoted to Associate Professor in 1968 and Professor in 1973.

-- For five years, she was a feature writer on the staff of Dixie Roto Magazine (New Orleans Times Picayune)

-- She was a member of the America Association of University Professors, American Association of University Women, the Louisiana Historical Association (Board of Directors), the Southern Historical Association and the Association of American Historians.

-- Authored the books "New Orleans in the Gilded Age: Politics and Urban Progress, 1880-1896" in 1969, published by the Louisiana Historical Association and Louisiana State University Press and "Where the River Runs Deep: The Story of a Mississippi River Pilot" in 1993 published by Louisiana State University Press.