Selected Research

Journal Articles

  • Mars, M., & Hart, J. (2022). Entrepreneurial sensemaking and transdisciplinary graduate entrepreneurship education. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 13(3), 297-314. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-09-2021-0
  • Griffin, K. A., Hart, J., Worthington, R. L., Belay, K., & Yeung, J. C. (2019). Race-related activism: How do higher education diversity professionals respond? Review of Higher Education, 43(2), 667-696.
  • Garvey, J. C., Hart, J., Metcalfe, A., & Fellabaum-Toston, J. (2019). Methodological troubles with gender and sex in higher education survey research. Review of Higher Education, 43(1), 1-24.
  • Gardner, S. K., Hart, J., Ng, J., Ropers-Huilman, R., Ward, K., & Wolf-Wendel, L. E. (2017). “Me-search:” Challenges and opportunities regarding subjectivity in knowledge construction. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 8(2), 88-108. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-D-17-00014
  • Mars, M. M., & Hart, J. (2017). Graduate STEM-based agriculture education and women agriculturalists: An agency perspective. Journal of Agricultural Education, 58(3), 256-274. https://doi.org/10.5032/jae.2017.03256
  • Garvey, J. C., Hart, J., Hoffman, G., Iverson, S., Metcalfe, A. S., Mitchell, T., Pryor, J. C.,& Seher, C. L.  (2017). Performing critical work: The challenges of emancipatory scholarship in the academic marketplace [Special issue]. Critical Questions in Education, 8(2), 138-162.
  • Lester, J., Sallee, M., & Hart, J. (2017). Beyond gendered universities? Implications for research on gender in organizations. NASPA: Journal about Women in Higher Education, 10(1), 1-26. doi:trategies for success (2nd ed.) (pp. 255-269). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Hart, J. (2018). Gender inequality and managerialism: A self-ethnographic exploration of a woman department chair. In J. Donaldson, B. Foster, & S. Graha10.1080/19407882.2017.1285794
  • Hart, J. (2016). Dissecting a gendered organization: Implications for career trajectories for mid-career women in STEM. Journal of Higher Education, 87(5), 605-634.
  • Pryor, J.,Ta, D., & Hart, J. (2016). Searching for home: Transgender students and experiences with residential housing. College Student Affairs Journal, 34(2), 43-60.

Book Chapters

  • Fellabaum-Toston, J. & Hart, J. (2026). Navigating the comprehensive exam. In A. J.Rockinson, L. S. Spaulding, & J. A. Perry (Eds.), Navigating the doctoral journey: A handbook of sm (Eds.), Navigating the volatility of higher education: Anthropological and policy perspectives (pp. 47-68). Charlotte, NC: Information Age.
  • Hart, J. (2017). Feminist faculty: Striving to be heard. In P. Eddy, K. Ward, & Khwaja, T. (Eds.), Critical approaches to women and gender in higher education (pp. 163-189). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hart, J., & Ludwig, E. (2014). Standards, Success, & CPED? A Foucaultian examination of “Best Practices” for doctoral programs in education. In S. Freeman, Jr., L. Goodchild, & L. Hagedorn (Eds.), Advancing higher education administration degree program quality: The question of doctoral guidelines (commemorating 120 years of excellence as a field of study) (pp. 197-212), Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Grant Proposals Funded

  • Hart, J. (PI) & Schatz, E. J. (Co-I). (2025). Scaling a Systems Approach to Inclusive GraduateResearch Environments. Funded by the Council of Graduate Schools, $40,000.
  • Hart, J. (PI), Behm-Morawitz, L., & Page, L. (Co-PIs). (2022). Supporting career readiness ofgraduate student-parents. Funded by the Missouri Scholarship & Loan Foundation, Institutional Workforce Enhancement Initiative Grant, $30,000. 

  • Polocco, J. C. (PI), Waldron, A. M., & Hart, J. (Co-PIs). (2012). Planning EPSCoR Missouri. Funded by the National Science Foundation, $244,281.

  • Schultz, J. (PI), Anderson, K., Barile, M., Gafke, R., Hart, J., Leonhard, L., Matisziw, T., Shang, Y., Shyu, C., Steinley, D., Wedman, J., & Westgren, R. (2010). The architecture of collaboration: Defining networks, developing methods. Funding requested from the Mizzou Advantage Program, University of Missouri, $46,800.
  • Pettey, D. H. (PI), Glaser, R. E., Hart, J. L., Schmidt, F. J., Smith, G. P., Golomb, M. W., & Patton, M. D. (Co-PIs). (2009). PRISM: Mathematics in Life Sciences. Funded by the National Science Foundation, $2,274,217.
  • Hart, J. (PI), & Litt, J. (Co-PI). (2007). A Faculty Status and Campus Climate Research Project for an NSF-ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Application. Funded by the MU Research Council, $6,875.
  • Litt, J. (PI), Middleton, M., Burgoyne, S., Tucker, S., Chandrasekhar, M., Beamer, L., Deakyne, C., Hart, J., Lorenzen, C., & Skubic, M. (Co-PIs). (2007). Mizzou ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination: Institutional Change and Gender Equity at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Funded by the National Science Foundation Partnership for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination Award, $500,000.

Conference Presentations

  • Hart, J., Bobley, B., Jensen, K., & Washington, T. (2026, August 27). Preparing future humanists to shape AI policy and practice. Beyond the Algorithm: Humanities Graduate Students as Leaders in AI. Panel for the Council of Graduate Schools. Washington, DC.

  • Hahn, M., Girod, D., & Hart, J. (2024, December 5). Making the case for graduate education with your president. Plenary for the Council of Graduate Schools 2024 Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO.

  • Hart, J. (2024, November 17). I am a scholar. Presidential address for the ASHE Annual Conference. Minneapolis, MN. 

  • Christie-Mizell, C. A., & Hart, J. (2024, July 16). Principles and practices of law-attentive DEI: Support for graduate programs. Workshop for the Council of Graduate Schools’ Summer Workshop, Boston, MA. 

  • Alonso, C. L., & Hart, J. (2023, October 2). Pressures on PhD cohort sizes. Presentation for the Association of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting, Association of American Universities, Washington, DC. 

  • Dolan, S., Hart, J., Lanyon, S., & Smith, M. J. T. (2023, June 5). R1 graduate school deans’ panel: A conversation about the current state of graduate education: Challenges and opportunities specific to TRIO McNair eligible students. Virtual panel for the McNair Association of Professionals. 

  • Sheridan, M., Hart, J., & Scott, A. (2022, July 9). Advocacy 101. Workshop for the Council of Graduate Schools New Deans’ Institute, Minneapolis, MN. 

  • Hart, J. (2021, December 2). A conversation with Tara Westover. Moderated discussion for the Council of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. 

  • Brothers, E., Hart, J., Penn-Marshall, M., & Sheridan, M. (2021, December 1). How to communicate the value of graduate education to lawmakers. Workshop for the Council of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

  • Stewart, D-L., Patton Davis, L., Rhoades, G., Brown, K., Alivés, B., Howard Hamilton, M.,Drezner, N., & Hart, J. (2021, October 18). The future of ASHE: An update from the 2021 Strategic Workgroup Leaders. Virtual webinar for the Association for the Study of Higher Education. 

  • Smith, J., Gonzales, L., Griffin, K., Hart, J., & Kramer, L. (2021, March 10). Faculty equity in a time of COVID. Virtual panel presented as part of 2001 to 2021 – Celebrating 20 Years of NSF ADVANCE. 

  • Hart, J. (2021, April 21). COVID’s effect on women and their careers. Virtual presentation for The Women in the Public Sphere, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. 

  • Kezar, A., Cantwell, B., & Hart, J. (2020, February). Faculty governance: When things go badly wrong. Symposium for the University of Denver’s Provost Conference: Summit on Shared Governance, Virtual Presentation.
  • Hart, J., & Mars, M. (2019, November). Developing the entrepreneurial agency of higher education graduate students: A multi-university, project-based pilot course. Roundtable presentation at the ASHE Annual Conference, Portland, OR.
  • Hart, J. (2019, March). The more things change, the more they stay the same?: The content and context of leadership decisions. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
  • Perez, R., Pasque, P., Chan, J., Hart, J., Davison, C. H., Robbins, C. K. (2018, November). Making meaning of the 2016 U.S. presidential election: Qualitative research on campuses in the era of 45. Symposium presented at the ASHE Annual Conference, Tampa, FL.
  • Trigos-Carrillo, L., Collins, D., Espino, M., Gonzales, L., & Hart, J. (2017, April). Latinas’  journey in higher education and leadership model for students, faculty, and administrators. Symposium presented at the AERA Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.
  • Griffin, K. A., Hart, J., Worthington, R. L., Belay, K., & Yeung, J. C. (2017, April). Race- related campus activism: How do higher education diversity professionals respond? Paper presented at the AERA Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.