Dr. Rebecca Godderis

I am interested in the application of anti-oppressive, anti-racist, feminist, and intersectional thinking in community-based activism and academic scholarship. Most of my published academic work has focused on the intersections of gender and sexuality as it relates to health, illness, medicine/psychiatry, and anti-violence work including a focus on gender-based and sexual violence. As part of this work, I have also published in the area of feminist methodologies.

My newest research combines my interest in intersectional feminist theory with community building and the relationship of grief to justice and liberation. As part of this work I have begun to explore arts-based methodologies with a specific focus on textile art. 

• Laurier Merit Award (2026)
• Award for Service Excellence and Community Engagement (2016)
• Lillian Robinson Visiting Scholar Award, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University (2015-16)
• Teaching Excellence Award, Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (2015)

I am keen to supervise students interested in doing qualitative research in the areas of: community building and engagement using intersectional feminist approaches, textile art and activism, the role of grief in justice and liberation work, and gender and sexuality including gender-based and sexual violence, 2SLGBTQIA+ experiences, and social determinants of health more broadly. I support projects that adopt an expilcit anti-oppressive and anti-racist lens, that use an intersectional feminist and/or queer studies approach, and/or incorporate a Foucauldian theoretical framework.

Selected publications from the last seven years:

• Godderis, Rebecca, Debra Langan and Marcia Oliver (in press, 2024). "The Messiness of Applying Feminist Research Principles: Reflections on Researching Rape Culture on Campus." In Claire Carter, Chelsea Temple Jones and Caitlin Janzen (Eds.), Contemporary Vulnerabilities: Reflections on Social Justice Methodologies. University of Alberta Press.
• Miele, Rachelle, Jennifer Root, Rebecca Godderis, and Sonia Meerai (2024). "Towards a Feminist Research Ethics of Care: Reflections, Lessons, and Methodological Considerations for Doing Research During a Pandemic." Studies in Social Justice.
• Godderis, Rebecca and Jennifer Root (2023). "Centering Reciprocity and Accountability in Community-based Research: How Meaningful Relationships with a Community Advisory Group impacted Survey Development." Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning.
• Godderis, Rebecca (2023). My Feminist Grief. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice.
• Rossiter, Kate and Rebecca Godderis (2020). "Essentially Invisible: Risk and Personal Support Workers in the time of COVID-19." Sociology of Health and Illness.
• Perreault-Laird, Jordyn, Mina Rajabi Paak, Rebecca Godderis (2020). "Remote Teaching and Technology-facilitated Gender-based and Sexual Violence." Academic Matters: OCUFA's Journal of Higher Education. 
• Oliver, Marcia, Rebecca Godderis and Debra Langan (2020). "Alternative practices and politics of care: Women students’experiences of rape culture and sexualized violence on campus." In Diane Crocker, Joanne Minaker, Amanda Nelund (Eds.), Violence Interrupted: Confronting Sexual Violence on University Campuses. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queens Press. 
• Godderis, Rebecca and Jennifer Root (2017). “Addressing Sexual Violence on Post-Secondary Campuses is a Collective Responsibility.” Transformative Dialogues.
• Godderis, Rebecca (2017) “How Faculty can Help End Sexual Violence on Campus.” Academic Matters: OCUFA’s Journal of Higher Education. 

Graduate

• Community Building and Activism
• Social Justice Research Methods
• Professionalization Seminar

Undergraduate

• Gender and Health
• Power, Politics, and Health
• Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice