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Dr. Jennifer Lee O'Donnell

  • Associate Professor - Curriculum And Instruction
Portrait of Dr. Jennifer Lee O'Donnell

Research Interests

  • O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee. Arts-based learning in Italy: A Fulbright study of the Segni Mossi method, Fulbright Scholars, Federal, $12634. (Submitted: 2025, Funded: 2026). Grant.
  • O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee. Segni Mossi at Texas State University: Movement and art in conversation and collaboration, The University Lecture Series, Texas State University, $1141. (Funded: 2026). Grant.
  • O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee. The MOSAIC project: Investigating Segni Mossi's impact on children's social-emotional development, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: 2025). Grant.
  • O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee, Lopez, Kathya (Supporting). Teachers who cross borders: Education and economic mobility in the Borderlands, University Grants Program: SDSU Division of Research Affairs, Institutional (Higher Ed), $10000. (Funded: 2020). Grant.
  • O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee (Principal), Cardenas, Jesse (Supporting). Teachers who cross borders: Education and economic mobility in the Borderlands, Dean’s Research Fellows Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $6200. (Funded: 2020). Grant.
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  • O’Donnell, J. L. (2025). Critical civics and democratic education through Us and Them divides on HBO’s The Leftovers. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 22(1), 54–74.
  • O’Donnell, J. L., & Dees, N. (2025). Accepting and affirming the “Undesirable Elements” through teacher education: A case study of developing cultural competence through performance. In R. W. Burns & J. Jacobs (Eds.), Clinically based teacher education in action: Cases that illustrate the complex work of teacher educators. Information Age Press.
  • O’Donnell, J. L., & Norris, A. (2025). Performance ethnography as a tool for cultivating culturally responsive teachers in online classrooms: A six phase approach. Action in Teacher Education, 47(3), 296–313.
  • O’Donnell, J. L. (2025). Walter Benjamin in the bathhouse: Meditations on robot mothers, daydreams, and art in the AI era. Anthropology and Humanism.
  • O’Donnell, J. L. (2025). Review of TV as curriculum studies: Putting curriculum theory to work. Comparative Education Review.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Douglas Foley Early Career Award (Runner Up), Council on Anthropology and Education. 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education/Studies in Educational Ethnography Travel Award (Recipient), Emerald Publishing. 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Frederick Erickson Outstanding Dissertation Award (Semi-Finalist), American Anthropological Association’s Council of Anthropology and Education. 2020
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation (Finalist), Comparative and International Education Society. 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Joseph W. Kiteley Student of Merit Award (Recipient), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2011
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  1. Coordinator / Organizer

    Interest group leader. Adult Teaching and Learning Communities, Workplaces and Schools. The American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education

  2. Member

    College of Education/Curriculum and Instruction Policy Review Committee

  3. Member

    College of Education/Curriculum and Instruction Personnel Committee

  4. Reviewer / Referee

    Reading Research Quarterly

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    Ethnography and Education Journal

  6. Member

    Office of Educator Preparation Student Review Committee. Texas State University.

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