Kyle Jackson
Kinder Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Political History, kyle.jackson@missouri.edu
Kyle Jackson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, where he teaches courses on early American history and leads the ASH Scholars Border War Project. His research interests include the political economy of the 19th-century Americas, the international engagement of the American South, and the US in the world more broadly. He recently completed his PhD at UC Berkeley, where he wrote a dissertation entitled Port of Call to Arms: New Orleans and the Frustrations of Empire in the Greater Caribbean: 1835-1920. He is the author of a forthcoming article in the Journal of Southern History, “How New Orleans Tried and Failed to Connect the Oceans, 1849–1907.”