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Jason Vasser-Elong [Vassir--Eh-long] is assistant teaching professor in the Pierre Laclede Honors College and a doctoral candidate in the College of Education at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and studied cultural anthropology and African Diaspora studies. He is the author of Shrimp (2Leaf Press, 2018). His current research is centered on student learning environments with an additional focus on peacemaking in literature. He was selected to give a lecture for the UMSL Black Faculty & Staff as part of their Dr. Jerome E. Morris Public Lecture Series. Recently, Jason received the University of Missouri South African Education Program Fellowship Award and will continue his research at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
An avid reader and writer, Jason is working on a new collection and has poetry and prose forthcoming in River Styx, Uno, and Callaloo. In 2022, he served as poet-in-residence for Sapiens, an editorially independent anthropology magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation & University of Chicago Press. He has also been invited to read poetry for the Association of Black Anthropologists.
