Expertise

Geographical Areas of Specialization

  • United States; Higher Education

Research Interests

  • food and the natural environment in expressive and popular culture; intersections of community and identity in education; scholarship of teaching and learning; pedagogy

Jennifer Meta Robinson studies how we learn to become ourselves in the context of community, through (1) intersections of food and environment and (2) pedagogies of higher education.

Her work in food studies considers issues of environmental, economic, and social sustainability in small alternative farms.

A scholar of teaching and learning in higher education, she has special interest in how graduate students and new faculty members learn to teach.

She teaches courses on food and culture.


Research:

  • Food and the natural environment in popular culture; intersections of community and identity in education; scholarship of teaching and learning; pedagogy

Research Area:

  • Human Environment Interaction and Sustainability
  • Environment in the Arts and Humanities
Communities
Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, Indiana University Bloomington, English, 2001
MA, Northeastern University, English, 1991
BA, Western Kentucky University, English, 1988