Dr. Jennifer Claire Robinson

Jennifer Claire Robinson is a settler-Canadian (English/Irish/Scottish) researcher currently working on lək̓ʷəŋən territories/ Victoria, BC. She holds a PhD from the University of Victoria in Visual Anthropology and an MA in Material and Visual Culture from the University College London.
Jennifer has held Postdoctoral Fellowships at Queen’s University in the Department of Cultural Studies and the University of Winnipeg in the Department of English, as well as arts, education, and reconciliation-focused projects with the Nisichawayasi Nehetho Culture and Education Authority in Nelson House (MB) and the Creative Conciliations Collective.
For the last decade, she has worked on a number of community-led research projects through the Visual Lab in the Department of Anthropology at UVic including ongoing collections, education, and repatriation work with Survivors from the Alberni Indian Residential School (BC) and the Mackay Residential School (MB) as part of the Residential and Indian Day School Art Research Program.
Jennifer is currently Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Anthropology where she teaches a number of courses related to visual culture, Canadian history, and community-driven arts, collections, and advocacy projects. Jennifer joined the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2021 with a focus on Indigenous-led harm reduction and culturally supportive housing in partnership with the Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness.
Projects
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.