Karen Robert is a historian of Latin America whose research addresses issues of labor, human rights, and material history in contemporary Argentina. She has been teaching at St. Thomas University, a publicly-funded undergraduate college in New Brunswick, Canada, for over twenty years. Dr. Robert has maintained a longstanding personal mindfulness and yoga practice , and has spent more than a decade experimenting with contemplative approaches to teaching that help students deepen their personal connection with their learning and with each other. She has undertaken contemplative education trainings with Vietnamese Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village Community, with the now-defunct Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, and at the Garrison Institute in New York State. In 2020-2021, Dr. Robert served as Remote Teaching Coordinator at St. Thomas, helping oversee the small college's transition to emergency remote learning during the COVID lockdown.
Podcasts Featuring Karen
Episode 516
Presence in the Online World
