Randall Jackson
Professor
Dr. Jackson joined the West Virginia University faculty as Regional Research Institute Director and Professor of Geology and Geography in January 2002. Previous appointments include the geography department and the Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University and the geography department at The Ohio State University. While at OSU, he also served two years as Associate Director for Research Computing. Dr. Jackson’s research interests range from regional economic development strategies through the refinement and reformulation of regional economic modeling frameworks to interregional trade and conjoined macroeconomic energy and environmental modeling. He holds Adjunct Professorships in Economics and Agriculture and Resource Economics at WVU and Geography at The Ohio State University and was also Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been involved in numerous funded research projects with support from the National Science Foundation, the US Departments of Commerce, Energy and Agriculture, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation, among others. Widely cited, he has published in a range of academic journals and is a past member of the editorial board of The Professional Geographer, Geographical Analysis, the Journal of Regional Science, and Papers in Regional Science, and a current member of the editorial boards of the Review of Regional Studies, Regional Statistics, International Regional Science Re
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