Jennifer Lee Johnson
Dr. Jennifer Lee Johnson is Associate Professor in the Department of Community Sustainability and Founder and Director of the Toxic Action Lab.
Working alongside residents, resource managers, scientists, and the state, Johnson's research examines complex human-environmental interactions at the confluence of economic, ecological, and socio-political transformations. To date, she has developed her research program across two distinct sites – first, in Ugandan fisheries where she has maintained long-term fieldwork since 2007, and most recently, in small to mid-sized cities and towns in the US Midwest, where she has conducted community-engaged, action-oriented research on environmental contamination and health equity since early2020. The National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have all supported various phases of Johnson's research.
Johnson received her Ph.D and M.S. from the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, Johnson held a faculty position in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, completed a three-year national leadership development program with the Robert Wood Johnson’s Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program, was a Carson Fellow with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University.
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