Johnson, Jennifer Lee and Alder Keleman Saxena. 2022. On Critical Proximity: Distance, Difference, and Digital Sociality. Journal of Political Ecology 29 (1): 741-761.
Pick, Cari M., Ahra Ko…Jennifer L. Johnson…et al. 2022. “Fundamental Social Motives Measured across Forty-Two Cultures in Two Waves.” Scientific Data 9 (1): 499.
Pick, Cari M., Ahra Ko, Alexandra S. Wormley…Jennifer L. Johnson…et al. 2022. “Family Still Matters: Human Social Motivation across 42 Countries during a Global Pandemic.” Evolution and Human Behavior 43 (6): 527–35.
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. 2021. “Guerrillas and Fish in Uganda.” Global Environment 14 (1): 86–119.
Zanotti, Laura, Zhao Ma, Jennifer Lee Johnson, David R. Johnson, David J. Yu, Morey Burnham, and Courtney Carothers. “Sustainability, Resilience, Adaptation, and Transformation: Tensions and Plural Approaches.” Ecology and Society 25, no. 3 (2020).
Ko, Ahra, Cari M. Pick, Jung Yul Kwon…Jennifer Lee Johnson…et al. “Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 15, no. 1 (January 2020): 173–201. (Johnson collected the Ugandan dataset used in this study and offered a round of comments on the draft manuscript)
Schoenbrun, David Lee and Jennifer Lee Johnson. “Introduction: Ethnic formation with Other-Than-Human Beings.” History in Africa, 45 (2018): 307–45.
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. “Fish, Family, and the Gendered Politics of Descent Along Uganda’s Southern Littorals.” History in Africa, 45 (2018): 445-471.
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. “Eating and Existence on an Island in Southern Uganda.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 37, no. 1 (2017): 2–23. (Awarded American Anthropological Association Anthropology and Environment Society Junior Scholar Award)
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. “From Mfangano to Madrid: The Global Commodity Chain for Kenyan Nile Perch.” Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management 13, no. 1 (2010): 20–27.
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. “Climate Change and Fishery Sustainability in Lake Victoria.” African Journal of Tropical Hydrobiology and Fisheries. 12 (2009): 31–36.
Refereed Book Chapters
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. “Gyebale.” In An Ecotopian Lexicon. Edited by Brent Ryan Bellamy, Chantal
Bilodeau and Matthew Schneider Mayerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Johnson, Jennifer L, Laura Zanotti, Zhao Ma, David J. Yu, David R. Johnson, Alison Kirkham, and Courtney Carothers. “Interplays of Sustainability, Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation.” In Handbook of Sustainability and Social Science Research, edited by Walter Leal Filho, Robert W. Marans, and John Callewaert, 3–25. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Johnson, Jennifer Lee, and Bakaaki Robert. “Working with Fish in the Shadows of Sustainability.” In Subsistence under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by James Ernest Murton, Dean Bavington, and Carly A Dokis, 195–233. Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies Series 4. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.
Moll, Russell A., Cynthia Sellinger, Edward S. Rutherford, Jennifer Lee Johnson, Michael Ryan
Fainter, and John E. Gannon. “The Great Lakes: An Overview of Their Formation, Geology, Physics, and Chemistry.” In Great Lakes Fisheries Policy and Management: A Binational Perspective, edited by William W. Taylor, Abigail J. Lynch, and Nancy J. Leonard 3–30. Michigan State University Press, 2013.
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. “Managerial Technologies, [Il]legal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africa’s Largest Freshwater Fishery.” In Landscape and Environment in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell, 248–70. Routledge African Studies. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Other Scholarly Writing
Miller, Valerie, Shradha Naveen, Amanda Waller, and Jennifer Lee Johnson. 2021. “Teaching through Tension at the Crossroads of America.” Teaching Anthropology (blog). October 4, 2021. https://teachinganthropology.org/2021/10/04/teaching-through-tension-at-the-crossroads-of-america/.
Saxena, Alder Keleman and Jennifer Lee Johnson. 2020. Cues for Ethnography in Pandamning Times: Thinking with Digital Sociality in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2020/ethnography-in-pandamning-times.html/ (
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. 2017. Fish. Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2017/fish.html/
Public Facing Work
Johnson, Jennifer Lee. 2022. “Foreword.” In Profits Over People: A Story of Tragedy and Corporate
Malfeasance, by Sherry Roe. Lebanon, Tennessee: Seven Interactive.
Presentations and InterviewsA Dying Lake, a Living Sea, and Other Bodies of Water. Lunchtime Colloquium. Rachel Carson Center. Munich, Germany. April 2018.
Interview for World Water Day. Purdue Water and Climate Expert Series. Episode 3. April 13, 2020. Available from: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=587104212157291
“Fishwork in Uganda.” TEDxUofM 2014: Against the Grain. Ann Arbor, MI. March 2014.
Published Under Pen NameGettum, Gina. "Two fishermen, five kilos and a fishery in crisis." Uganda Daily Monitor.
Kampala, Uganda. June 11, 2008.
Gettum, Gina. "Small fish, big risks - Illegal livelihoods in the Lake Victoria Basin."
Uganda Daily Monitor. Kampala, Uganda. June 18, 2008.
Gettum, Gina. "Saving the ‘fish basket’ from drying up." Uganda Daily Monitor. Kampala,
Uganda. June 25, 2008.
Radio + Podcasting2008-2014. Co-founder and co-host of It's Hot in Here, an environmentally themed public affairs talk and music radio show still airing on 88.3-WCBN-FM-Ann Arbor. Fresh and archived podcasts available from: http://www.hotinhere.us.
Recent Media Coverage of ResearchThompson, Cody. 2021. “A Broad Overview: Pike & Mulberry Plume Community Group, Purdue
Researchers Talk Ongoing Projects.” Reporter-Times. May 7, 2021. https://www.reporter-times.com/story/news/local/mdt/2021/05/07/a-broad-overview-pike-mulberry-plume-community-group-purdue-researchers-talk-ongoing-projects/44014699/
Kate Bevitt. “Gender included from the ‘get go’ in global small-scale fisheries study.” June 2, 2020.
CGIAR Research Program on Fish. News. Available from: https://fish.cgiar.org/news-and-updates/news/gender-included-%E2%80%98get-go%E2%80%99-global-small-scale-fisheries-study and The Fish Tank. World Fish Center. Available from: https://blog.worldfishcenter.org/2020/06/gender-included-from-the-get-go-in-global-small-scale-fisheries-study/
Kate Blevitt. “The story behind collecting the data on women in global study on small-scale fisheries.”
June 29, 2020. Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries.
https://www.genderaquafish.org/2020/06/29/the-story-behind-collecting-the-data-on-women-in-global-study-on-small-scale-fisheries/
Hsu, Hua. “The Search for New Words to Make us Care about the Climate Crisis.” February 21, 2020.
The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-search-for- new-words-to-make-us-care-about-the-climate-crisis