Jennifer Lee Johnson
By making a clear analytic distinction between Lake Victoria, named by John Hanning Speke who 'discovered' this lake in honor of Imperial England's Queen Victoria, and Nyanza, a vernacular word used by many who live along its shores, Jennifer studies women's work in fisheries as a dynamic set of vernacular, gendered and species-specific practices that women (and men) have long innovated alongside dramatic social and ecological change. Her work is guided by the overarching proposition that women are and long have been crucial to sustaining local and regional fisheries-related economies in ways that mitigate possibilities for spectacular triumph or failure within the narrowly defined criteria for managerial success. Though, their contributions have remained largely absent from scholarship in environmental anthropology, environmental history and technical resource governance.
As an SNRE Dean's Fellow (2008-2013), Jennifer has trained extensively in cross-disciplinary theoretical, methodological and area-studies approaches to her work, while supervising several undergraduate students with the UM Undergraduate Research Program, and assisting in graduate and undergraduate teaching in resource policy, politics and ethics. As a Fellow at the Ecosystem Management Initiative (2009-2011), Jennifer collaborated with academics, management professionals, and resource users to advance theory and practice on marine ecosystem management on three continents.
Jennifer is also a founding co-host of WCBN-FM-Ann Arbor's only environmentally-themed public affairs show, It's Hot in Here (2007-Present) and member of the WCBN Board of Directors (2009-Present).
In the summer of 2011, Jennifer worked with a team of students, scholars and professional archivists from the University of Michigan, Makerere University and the Ugandan National Archives to organize and catalogue seven previously unavailable collections of historical documents at the Ugandan National Archives in Entebbe, Uganda, and is happy to share a copy of these catalogues with all who are interested. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies at SNRE, Jennifer studied International Political Economy at the Colorado College, and spent several years working for the Marine Fish Conservation Network, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lake Environmental Research Laboratory, and the Blue Ocean Institute.
Selected Publications
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. Forthcoming in 2012. "Moral Ecology, Modern Management and the Mother Ship Connection: Science, Development and the Creation of a Manageable Lake. In Bringing Subsistence out of the Shadows, eds. Ruth Sandwell, Colin Duncan, and James Murton. Rural, Wildland and Resource Studies Series. Mc-Gill-Queen's Press. Montreal, Quebec. |
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