Dr. Jennifer Claire Robinson

 My name is Jennifer, and I am a settler-Canadian (English/Irish/Scottish) visual anthropologist living on lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. Currently, I am Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria and a Research Associate with the Visual Stories Lab, where I contribute to curatorial, collections, education, and repatriation projects. I am also a Research Associate with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research where since 2021, I have taken part in several harm reduction-focused projects under the Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study. Since 2019, I have worked as a freelance consultant on behalf of museums, galleries, cultural centres, and Indigenous nations on various projects that support community-engaged advocacy through creative and participatory research methods and collaborations.

Projects

• Cannabis Substitution of Alcohol as a Component of Managed Alcohol Programs: Pilot Intervention and Evaluation
• Reducing alcohol-related harm for people experiencing homelessness and housing instability during COVID19: A Vancouver Island case study

Publications

• Robinson, Jennifer Claire, Hogue, Tarah, and Jonathan Dewar. (Forthcoming, under contract) Creative Conciliations: Reflections, Responses, and Refusals. Edited Book Manuscript. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
• Selfridge, Marion, Robinson, Jennifer Claire and Lisa M. Mitchell. 2021. “heART Space: Curating Community Grief from Overdose”. Global Studies of Childhood Special Issue: Children’s Art in Times of Crisis 11(1):69-90. 
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2021. “On Beaded Ground.” First American Art Magazine Fall 32: 83-84. 
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2020. “Fugitives in the Archives.” Visual Anthropology Review 36(1):170-177. 
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2019. “Institutional Culture and the Work of Human Rights in Canadian Museums”. Museum Management and Curatorship 34(1):24-39. 
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2018.“Coming Undone: Protocols of Emotion in Canadian Human Rights Museology”. In Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present, eds. Laurajane Smith, Margaret Wetherell, and Gary Campbell. Routledge Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, pp.150-163. London: Routledge.
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2018. “The Space of Gathering and Gathering in Place”. Creative Conciliations Project Site, Online Essay, July 25th, 2018. 
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2018. “Canada 150 and the Art of Reconciliation”, Pryiscence Magazine. Online Essay, January 24th, 2018. Available Online:
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2017. The Exhibition Landscape of Human Rights in Canada: An Ethnographic Study into Process and Design. PhD Dissertation. University of Victoria. 
• Wastasecoot, Lorilee and Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2017. “What Does It Mean to Witness: A Conversation”, There is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children’s Art from Indian Residential and Indian Day Schools Exhibition Site, Online Essay, September 2017. 
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2017. “Rivers”. Creative Conciliations Project Site, Online Essay, October 24th, 2017.
• Tremblay, Crystal, Spilker, Robin, Nagel, Rhianna, Robinson, Jennifer and Leslie Brown. 2017. “Assessing the Outcomes of Community-University Engagement Networks in a Canadian Context”. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning 3(2): 1-21.
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2017. “Review of: The Canadian Oral History Reader, edited by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly”. International Journal of Heritage Studies 23(7): 675-677. 
• Robinson, Jennifer Claire. 2016. “Archival Theatre: Place and Performance in Early 20th Century London”. Early Popular Visual Culture 14(1): 16-54.