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Name:	Tamara Jackson Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. San Diego, CA. 92037-0506 tjjackson@ucsd.edu Blog
Education:	University of California, San Diego Graduate Student, Department of Communication University of California, Los Angeles BA Anthropology Spring 2007 BA Sociology Spring 2007
Fields of Professional Interest:	Play, multimodal interaction, embodied language practices, collective action and cooperation, Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Historical Activity Theory, Anthropology and Sociology of Education, Ethnography of Education, qualitative methods, Anthropology and Sociology of Childhood and the Family, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics.
Research Interests:	Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, UC San Diego, 9/07 - Present Graduate student researcher, Principle Investigator Dr. Michael Cole, Department of Communication Anthropology Undergraduate Honors Thesis, UC Los Angeles, 1/06 - 4/07 Were the Colonists Americans?: Classroom Conversations and the Construction of National Identity among Immigrant Students During a United States History Lesson Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Department of Anthropology Transformative Action Institute, UC Los Angeles 1/07 - 6/07 Undergraduate research fellow, Principle Investigator Dr. Scott Sherman, Institute on the Environment Graduate School of Education & Info. Studies, UC Los Angeles 12/06 - 4/07 Transcriber and research assistant, Principle Investigator Dr. Jennifer McCormick, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Center on Everyday Lives of Families, UC Los Angeles 6/05 - 4/06 Transcriber and research assistant, Principle Investigator Dr. Elinor Ochs, Department of Anthropology
Awards:	Wasserman Research Scholarship, UC Los Angeles, 6/06 - Present Awarded through UCLA's Undergraduate Research Scholars Program
Conferences and Presentations:	Posters Posters on the Hill, Council of Undergraduate Research, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC, 4/25/07 Oral Presentations Anthropology Undergraduate Honors Presentation, University of California, Los Angeles, 4/21/07 21st National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Dominican university of California, 4/13/07 28th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Urban Ethnography, 2/23/07 Southern California Conf. for Undergraduate Research, Occidental College,11/18/0