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Ashley Robinson
Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Education/Degree:
1 Leadership and Education Policy Leadership and Education Policy Leadership and Education Policy Leadership and Education Policy (University of Connecticut)
About
Ashley N. Robinson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Sammartino School of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Leadership and Education Policy from the University of Connecticut and with an M.Ed. in Student Development in Higher Education and a B.A. in English, both from the University of Maine. Prior to pursuing an academic career, she worked professionally in higher education for six years in residential life and housing. Her work is strongly informed by both her experience as a student affairs educator and her background as an academic labor organizer. Dr. Robinson has published several articles and book chapters in outlets including the Journal of Critical Studies in Education, the Journal of College Student Development, and About Campus and has presented her emerging research widely at conferences such as NASPA, ACPA, ASHE, and AERA.
Current Work
Dr. Robinson’s research focuses on examining higher education policies and practices to understand new possibilities for leaders and educators to create more just and equitable organizations and institutions. Dr. Robinson uses critical qualitative methods to center frontline administrators’ and students’ experiences with institutional policies and practices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. She works primarily in the scholarly areas of critical study of whiteness and institutional ethnography. Her current research project, funded by the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, is an institutional ethnography that examines marginalized college students’ experiences with biased and hateful speech that their institution has deemed protected free speech. In this participatory study, Dr. Robinson will engage students in analysis of their experiences to imagine creative possibilities for higher education institutions to respond to identity-based bias.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Critical Whiteness Studies, Institutional Ethnography, higher education, student affairs, Racist Incidents