Jennifer Robertson

Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology and History of Art at the University of Michigan, with affiliations in Women's and Gender Studies and Art & Design. Her interdisciplinary research spans colonial practices, gender systems, mass culture, and technology.

As founding editor of the Colonialisms book series, she examines non-Western imperialist practices. Her work encompasses diverse topics including Japanese nativist movements, agrarian societies, urbanism, and the anthropology of suicide. Current research explores Japanese colonial history, eugenics and bioethics in comparative contexts, war art, and humanoid robotics.

Robertson teaches courses on anthropological theory, non-Western colonialisms, art-anthropology intersections, mass culture, and genes/identity politics. She maintains artistic practice in watercolor, ceramics, and oil painting alongside her scholarly work.