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Biosketch 2020

Jennifer Barton is a Tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis, MD. Her research and teaching follow the movements of knowledge, power, and identity as they are transformed through the structures of material culture. Before joining the faculty at St. John's, she worked with several community-based nonprofit organizations, including the Community Foundation and Appalachian Voices. Her most recent book, //From the Ground Up// (Island Press 2016), is an analysis of the role played by grassroots coalitions in the radical change in US energy infrastructure during the second Obama administration. She writes regularly for Orion, has published poetry in several journals, and teaches at the American Folk Dance Studio.

Barton holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MA and BA in English from Virginia Tech.

Keyword Biosketch: knowledge, power, identity, material culture, community, environment

(more amusement from Microsoft's spellcheck: its suggested replacement for "Rennselaer" is "enslaver")