AFRICAN AMERICAN
STUDIES DEPARTMENT

Caroline Jackson Smith

Contact Information

E-mail to: caroline.jackson.smith@oberlin.edu
Phone: (440) 775-8154
Warner Dance 108
10 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074

Assistant Professor of African American Studies

Educational Background
B.A.Yale University (with distinction in Afro-American Studies) Further studies in the Afro-American Studies MA Program Yale University

Areas of Expertise:

Professor Jackson Smith teaches Theater, Film, Creative writing an African American Studies at Oberlin as well as directing student productions for the Hall Mainstage. Some of her productiosn include The Wiz, The Piano Lesson, for colored girls, and Ominum Gatherum. She also directs professionally and has worked for theaters locally and nationally, including Cleveland Public Theater, Karamu Performing Arts Theater, Kuntu Rep ( Pittsburgh ), Portland stage ( Maine ) and Signature Theater (NYC). From 1981-1989 she was Director of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale University . She has been at Oberlin since 1989.

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