Kirk Robinson


Professional Details

Title Visiting Assistant Professor
Department McKeown School of Education
Email kirk.robinson@salemstate.edu
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Recent and Upcoming Courses

EDU 723 The History of Higher Education
EDU 861 Assessment and Evaluation in Student Affairs

Professional Biography

PhD in Student Affairs in Higher Education (Miami University)

I've served in various student affairs practitioner roles at multiple different postsecondary institutions in the United States since 2011 (currently at the University of Rhode Island in UCAS Advising)

Professional Interests

Neoliberal postsecondary education; philosophy of student affairs labor

Selected Publications

Robinson, K. S. (2023). Student affairs work under neoliberalism, and within the global class war [Book review of The corporatization of student affairs: Serving students in neoliberal times, by D. K. Cairo, & V. Cabal]. Higher Education, 85(2), 473-476. 

Robinson, K. S. (Dec. 2021/Jan. 2022). How treating prospective undergraduate students as customers and commodifying postsecondary education led to graduate teaching assistant (GTA) alienation in the neoliberal academy: A personal experience narrative. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 19(3), 248-282. (http://www.jceps.com/archives/12013)

Robinson, K. S. (2020). The influence of neoliberalism on graduate student teaching preparation: A  structural, interactionist study. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 11(3), 295-310. 

Selected Presentations

Robinson, K. S. (2023, March). The Subsumption of Student Affairs Labor in Postsecondary Education Under Capitalism. Work-in-progress presentation at the annual conference for the Philosophy of Education Society, Chicago, IL. 

Robinson, K. S. (2021, May). Shaping the teacher, the researcher, and the person: A graduate teaching assistant’s autoethnographic account of navigating the neoliberal university. Research paper presentation at the annual conference for the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.