Supply Chain Management Faculty earns Promotion to Full Professor
Dr. Jessica Robinson was Promoted to Full Professor

We are thrilled to congratulate on her promotion to Full Professor in the Department of Management and Human Resource Management here in the College of Business. Since joining MD´«Ã½Èë¿Ú in August 2014 and earning promotion to Associate Professor in 2020, Dr. Robinson has distinguished herself as a teacher-scholar who elevates student learning and advances the supply chain discipline. She regularly teaches SCM 410: Sustainable Logistics Management and SCM 430: Project Management, bringing cutting-edge research and practice into the classroom. Her excellence in instruction and mentorship has been recognized with the College of Business Most Valuable Professor (MVP) award in 2020 and again in 2025.
Dr. Robinson has authored a dozen peer-reviewed publications with hundreds of citations, including influential work on supply chain integration, sustainability, and organizational identification. Representative publications include a meta-analysis on strategic supply chain integration in the Journal of Business Logistics, research on traceability and supply network complexity in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, and studies on environmental and social sustainability in the and analytics for strategic sourcing in the International Journal of Information Management. Her applied scholarship also extends to workforce issues in transportation through a Mineta Transportation Institute report on California truck-driver turnover. Beyond scholarship and teaching, she has provided notable service by helping develop and grow MD´«Ã½Èë¿Ú’s supply chain curriculum and undergraduate program.