Faculty Profile for Dr. Jennifer Lee O'Donnell

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Dr. Jennifer Lee O'Donnell
Assistant Professor — Curriculum And Instruction
ED 3044
phone: (512) 245-3701
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Research Interests

 In my academic work, I explore the impact of race, culture, gender, sexuality, land, and migration-related traumas on education. Using diverse texts, theories, and methodologies across education activism, teacher identity, and media studies, I draw on community insights to understand how these traumas influence learning and teaching within specific societal contexts.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • O’Donnell, J. L. (2024). Dirty care in the transfronterizo experience: Walking with Mexicali/Calexico teachers through their youth. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 55(1), 65–83.
  • O’Donnell, J. L., & Sadlier, S. T. (2023). Becoming with education-based social movements through diffractive analysis. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 54(2), 183–193.
  • O’Donnell, J. L. (2023). Forging an identity as a transfronterizo student in the context of neoliberalism and English language learning at the U.S.-Mexico border. Journal of Latinos and Education, 22(5), 2215–2231.
  • O’Donnell, J. L. (2023). Critical civics and democratic education through Us and Them divides on HBO’s The Leftovers. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
  • O’Donnell, J. L. (2023). Adolescent healing through shamanism and the carnivalesque in the trauma-sensitive classroom. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education/Studies in Educational Ethnography Travel Award, Emerald Publishing. 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Frederick Erickson Outstanding Dissertation Award (Co-Finalist), American Anthropological Association’s Council of Anthropology and Education. 2020
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation, Comparative and International Education Society. 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Joseph W. Kiteley Student of Merit Award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching and Service Award, New York City Teaching Fellows. 2005

Selected Grants

  • 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.
  • O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee (Principal). Archival research at Instituto Paulo Freire in São Paulo, Brazil, UMASS Graduate School Travel Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $2000. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
  • O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee (Other). The immigrant experience in California through literature and history, Summer Seminars and Institutes for Higher Education Faculty: National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Federal, $2300. (Funded: 2014). Grant.
  • O'Donnell, Jennifer Lee (Principal). Pilot study for dissertation research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Labor Studies Research Grant: UMASS Sociology Department, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1000. (Funded: 2011). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Reviewer / Referee
Reading Research Quarterly
2024-Present
Member
Texas State University College of Education/Curriculum and Instruction Secondary Residency Committee
2023-Present
Member
Office of Educator Preparation Student Review Committee
2023-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Proposal Committee: American Educational Research Association's Division G and Adolescence and Youth Development SIG
2023-Present
Editor
Equity and Excellence in Education Journal
2023-Present