Sally Jackson

Sally Jackson is an American scholar of argumentation, communication, and rhetoric. She is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jackson earned all three of her degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has held faculty positions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1979-1982), Michigan State University (1982-1985), University of Oklahoma (1985-1990), and the University of Arizona (1991-2007). At Arizona she also served in a series of administrative positions, including Vice Provost/Vice President for Learning and Information Technologies and Chief Information Officer. In 2007 she returned to the University of Illinois as a faculty member and Chief Information Officer of the campus. She resigned from the position of CIO in 2011 to protest administrative changes that she feared would harm the Urbana campus status as a world leader in information technology but remains a faculty member.The central theme in Professor Jacksons work has been communication design, with specific interests ranging from the natural design of argumentation to highly engineered systems for managing complex human activities. Her work has appeared in Communication Monographs, Communication Theory, Journal of the American Forensic Association, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Argumentation, among other journals. She has written or co-authored three books.Selected Works:Selected Awards Include:from the National Communication Association:from the American Forensic Association:from the International Society for the Study of Argumentation:

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