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Jonnell A. Robinson

Jonnell A. Robinson

Contact Information:

jdallen@syr.edu

315.443.4890

215C Lyman Hall

Jonnell A. Robinson

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department


Courses

  • 2025 Spring
    • GEO 400/600 Selected Topics - Health Applications of GIS
  • 2024 Spring
    • GEO 485/685 Community Geography
  • 2023 Fall
    • GEO 489/689 Practicum in Community Geography
    • GEO 400/600 Selected Topics - GIS App-Health & Human Service
  • 2023 Spring
    • GEO 484/684 GIS for Urban Environments
    • IRP 499 Honors Capstone Project
    • GEO 489/689 Practicum in Community Geography

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010

Areas of Expertise

Community geography, participatory geographic information systems (GIS)

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"Feminist Mapping: Developing an alternative approach to map symbolization, iconography, and an open-source symbol library.", Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities/Natl. Fndn. on the Arts & Humanities.

"Farm to School", Sponsored by Department of Agriculture.

"The NY Food Hub Collaborative", Sponsored by Department of Agriculture.

"Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Thought Leadership Partnership with Syracuse University's Lender Center", Sponsored by MetLife Foundation.

"Government Innovation II", Sponsored by City of Syracuse.

"Rooting for Syracuse: A community-based approach to advancing tree equity", Sponsored by US Forest Service.

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

Minkoff-Zern, L., Robinson, J. A., Sarfo, F., Food Policy Networks, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, "Food Policy Councils and Food Chain Labor: Setting the Table for Labor Justice" (December 4, 2024)

Minkoff-Zern, L., Robinson, J. A., Sarfo, F., 2024 AFHVS-ASFS Conference: Right to Food-Food as Commons, Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), "Food Policy Councils and Frontline Food Workers: Opportunities and Challenges for Labor Advocacy" (June 7, 2024)

Ashby, L., Fonger, N., Robinson, J. A., Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference: Mapping and Empowerment, AAG Middle Atlantic Regional Division Meeting, "Teaching Mathematics and Geography through an Environmental Justice Lens" (October 22, 2023)

Robinson, J. A., Thibault, A., Ashby, L., Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference: Mapping and Empowerment, AAG Middle Atlantic Regional Division Meeting, "Uprooting Tree Inequity in Syracuse" (October 13, 2023)

Adapting in place: Exploring community and environmental wellness in the time of climate change., SUNY ESF and Americorps, "The Role of Urban Trees in Community Health and Wellbeing" (September 23, 2023)

Melo, N., Robinson, J. A., American Association of Geography Annual Meeting, "Retaliatory Eviction: Examining the relationship between eviction and housing code violations in Syracuse, NY" (March 24, 2023)

University of Nebraska, Geography Department (2021)

Honors and Accolades

2016-2017 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University (2017)

Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship, Syracuse University (2015)

Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence, Syracuse University (2011)

Outstanding Achievement Award, NYS GIS Association (2011)

Green Our Community Advocacy Award, Greening USA (2010)