Jamie Crosswhite

Jamie Crosswhite is an Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Lead in Writing-Studies at St. Mary's University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), an M.A. from West Texas A&M University, and a B.A. from Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on place-based rhetorics, walking methodologies, and feminist pedagogies, with emphasis on critical regionalism and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Dr. Crosswhite has 19 years of teaching experience, spanning high school education, community college instruction, and university-level teaching. She has held roles at UTSA as a teaching fellow and at Our Lady of the Lake University before joining St. Mary's. Her work emphasizes non-traditional approaches to writing assessment and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Her scholarly outputs include peer-reviewed articles in journals like Community Literacy Journal and Women's Studies, as well as contributions to edited collections. Notable grants include a USDA HSI Collaborative Grant (#37621) as Co-PI, totaling $998,963, and multiple fellowships totaling over $50,000. Awards highlight her excellence in teaching and research innovation.

• Grants: Eco-JEDI City-Wide Collaboration Grant ($998k, 2022), UTSA Distinguished Research Fellowship ($40k, 2019-2020)
• Awards: Multiple teaching awards (unspecified), Jess Hay Fellowship ($10k, 2019)

Her writing portfolio includes poetry published in Sagebrush Review and a blog post on Annie Proulx for the New York Public Library. She advocates for place-based education and community-engaged scholarship.