Titles

• Professor, School of Social Transformation Justice and Social Inquiry

Biography

Jennifer A. Sandlin is an associate professor of justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses on consumption and education, popular culture and justice, and social and cultural pedagogy. Her research focuses on the intersections of education, learning, and consumption; as well as on the theory and practice of public pedagogy. She also investigates sites of public pedagogy and popular culture-based, informal, and social movement activism centered on “unlearning” consumerism. She is currently co-editor of Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Her work has been published in Journal of Consumer Culture, Adult Education Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Curriculum Inquiry, and Teachers College Record. She recently edited, with Jason Wallin, "Paranoid Pedagogies" (Palgrave, 2018); with Peter McLaren, "Critical Pedagogies of Consumption" (Routledge, 2010); with Brian Schultz and Jake Burdick, "Handbook of Public Pedagogy" (Routledge, 2010); with Jake Burdick and Michael O’Malley, "Problematizing Public Pedagogy" (Routledge, 2014); and with Julie Garlen, "Disney, Culture, and Curriculum" (Routledge, 2016) and "Teaching with Disney" (Peter Lang, 2016).

Education

• Ph.D. Adult Education, University of Georgia, 2001
• M.A. Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 1994