Author: Jennifer Robertson
Alternate names: Jennifer Ellen Robertson, Jennifer E. Robertson
Bio: Jennifer Robertson is Professor Emerita (as of January 2020), Departments of Anthropology and the History of Art, and the Penny W. School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also Affiliate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Japan Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. 

Robertson earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 1985, where she also earned a B.A. in the History of Art in 1975. The recipient of many fellowships and awards, she was an Invited Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1996-1997) and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2011-2012).  ACLS, SSRC, NEH, Japan Foundation, Abé Foundation, Wenner Gren, and Fulbright are among her other fellowships.