Jennifer Meta Robinson
My research examines how we learn to become ourselves in the company of others, especially through the lenses of food and education. Working with small-scale food farmers and other producers in the US Midwest and Northeast, I investigate how they position themselves relative to industrial, hegemonic food systems, creating both personal meaning webs and transferable innovations.
This relationship implicates other systems of meaning, making, and learning, which I carry into my study of “pedagogies of becoming,” how new college teachers learn to teach and become members of teaching communities. Currently, I am researching the history of and developments in the political economy of local food, especially as new notions of justice and the commons emerge.
My research has been supported by grants from the Association of American Universities, the Carnegie Foundation, the Teagle Foundation, the Indiana Arts Commission, and Indiana University. My service to teaching has received awards from the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, the TIAA Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development, and IU’s Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching.
I direct the Graduate Certificate on College Pedagogy and am affiliated with Sustainable Food Systems Science, the Ostrom Workshop on Political Theory & Policy Analysis, the Center for Rural Engagement, the Integrative Program on the Environment, and the Food Institute at Indiana University.
Source: Indiana University Bloomington
