Jennifer Rogers

Jennifer Rogers is a lecturer at the University of CA, Santa Barbara. In 2007, she concluded her dissertation research in Oaxaca, Mexico and recently received a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in Women’s Studies. Her dissertation, titled “The Ma(i)ze of Globalization: Free Trade, Gender, and Resistance in Oaxaca,” tells the multidimensional story of corn in Mexico. Jennifer’s research centers the voices of indigenous women and their relationship to culture, the environment, and food production within the world economy. Her dissertation analyzes the changing roles of gender, the effects of globalization, and the story of resistance by indigenous peoples and farm workers who claim that the planting of genetically modified corn is a sure path to environmental and economic devastation.

As a teaching associate and lecturer at UCSB, Jennifer has taught Sociology courses on Gender Theory, Women in American Society, Deviance, Social Movements, Qualitative Methodology, and Intro to Sociology. Additionally, she taught a Women’s Studies course titled “Gender Issues in Development: Environment, Food, and Resistance.” She received her MA in Sociology at UCSB in 2005. She graduated from UC Irvine in 2001 with a BA in Sociology and Women’s Studies where she was deeply inspired by her favorite professor, Nancy Naples, to pursue a doctorate in Sociology.