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Dr. Jennifer Lee O'Donnell

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

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Education

University of Massachusetts, 2017

Master's Degree

MA in English

San Francisco State University, 2002

Bachelor's Degree

BA in English

Rhode Island College, 2000

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. (n.d.). The pedagogy of a single line: Transborder students, educators, and the curriculum of crossing the U.S.–Mexico border. University of Minnesota Press.
  • O’Donnell, J. L. (2026). Living monstrously: A feminist reading of care, refusal, and the teacher’s double bind in Weapons. Gender and Education.
  • O’Donnell, J. L. (2026). Poems from a life away. Anthropology and Humanism.
  • O’Donnell, J. L. (n.d.). “…and those boys safe and warm in their beds.” Institutional recursion in schooling and the reproduction of harm: Reading The Holdovers as educational theory. Teachers College Record.
  • 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.
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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. Other

    Equity and Excellence in Education Journal

  3. Member

    College of Education/Curriculum and Instruction Policy Review Committee

  4. Member

    College of Education/Curriculum and Instruction Personnel Committee

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    Reading Research Quarterly

  6. Reviewer / Referee

    Ethnography and Education Journal

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