Biography
Jackson’s research focuses on late antique history, particularly on the topics of communication, the uses of written documents, Christian controversies, and reception.
His dissertation, “Forged, Suppressed, Corrupted, and Burned: Letters and Miscommunication in Late Antiquity,” investigates how individuals navigated the fraught system of late antique letter communication in ways that allowed them to exert social power. His Master’s research, completed at the University of Toronto in 2021, focused on the transmission of letters and polemical texts among Christian circles during Jerome and Rufinus' Origenist controversy. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2019 with a BA Honours in History as the top graduate in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Publications and Conference Papers:
- “How to Win Late Antiquity: Board Games and Historical Narratives.” Paper presented at the SCS 2025 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2025.
- “Augustine’s Letter Archive and Social Power in Late Antiquity.” Paper presented at the CAC 2024 Annual Conference, Quebec, May 2024.
- Coauthored with Rebecca Darley. “Collections to Think with: Scholarship and Collecting in the R. E. Hart Collection (Blackburn).” Journal of the History of Collections 32.2 (July 2020): 369–378.