Associate Professor
Dr. Nicole L. Johnson, PhD (she/her) is at her core an intersectional feminist, who beliefs ‘the personal is political’. She is a white, queer, cisgender, able-bodied, woman, uninvited settler on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) land. Nic is also a mother, a wife, a mentor, a learner, and a wounded healer. She is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania, USA and is currently in the process of becoming a registered psychologist in British Columbia. Her clinical work focuses on the empowerment of survivors of gender-based violence through feminist approaches to counseling.
Scholarly Interests:
Nic’s research is dedicated to the exploration and implementation of prevention programming for gender-based violence (e.g., rape, intimate partner violence, violence against trans and queer communities) and the understanding and eradication of rape culture. She is the coordinator of The Resistance Lab, which was founded on the idea that we can end gender-based violence through feminist consciousness-raising, high-quality research, empirically supported and culturally sensitive programming, and system-level change. Nic believes in the importance of public-facing research and therefore, utilizes social media (@FancyAcademic; @TheResistanceLab) and The Resistance Lab’s website to make research more accessible. She also engages in public scholarship (e.g., The National Psychologist; Washington Blade) and has been cited by several media outlets including: USA Today, APA’s Monitor on Psychology and Teen Vogue.
Theoretical Orientation:
Feminist
Generative Somatics
Internal Family Systems
Note: Student co-authors are underlined
Johnson, N. L., Benner, M., Lipp, N. S., Siepser, C. F., Rizvi, Z., Lin, Z., & Calene, E. (2024). Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence. Women’s Studies International Forum, 107, 103016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103016
Johnson, N. L., Corbett-Hone, M., Lipp, N., & Langman, P. (2024). Not so random acts of violence: Shared social-ecological features of violence against women and school shootings. Men and Masculinities, 25(2), 113-123. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/men0000445
Johnson, N., L., Corbett-Hone, M., Gutekunst, M. H. C., & Grove, M.B. (2021). Addressing rape culture in the LGBTQ+ community through consciousness-raising: A developmental study. Psychology & Sexuality, 12(1-2), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2019.1678192 [LU]
Johnson, N. L., & Johnson, D. M. (2021). An empirical investigation into the measurement of rape culture. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(1-2), NP70-95NP. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517732347
Johnson, N. L., & Grove, M. B. (2017). Why us? Toward an understanding of bisexual women’s risk for and negative consequences of sexual violence. Journal of Bisexuality, 17, 435-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2017.1364201