Associate Professor
CNPS Program Coordinator
Accepting MA or PhD students for 2026-27 year
Dr. Nicole L. Johnson, PhD (she/her) is at her core an intersectional feminist, who believes ‘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 British Columbia, and Pennsylvania. Her clinical work focuses on the empowerment of survivors of gender-based violence through intersectional 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 community-led and public-facing research and therefore, utilizes social media (@FancyAcademic; @TheResistanceLab), The Resistance Lab’s website, and her involvement as a Board member at Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre to make research more accessible and reflective of community needs. She also engages in public scholarship (e.g., The National Psychologist; Washington Blade; Substack) and has been cited by several media outlets including: CBC, USA Today, APA’s Monitor on Psychology and Teen Vogue.
Theoretical Orientation:
Feminist
Generative Somatics
Internal Family Systems
Note: Student co-authors are highlighted
Johnson, N. L., credit, m., & DeSipio, B. (2026). Define it! Addressing rape culture within the LGBTQ+ community through critical consciousness raising. Journal of Homosexuality, 73(10), 2716-2736, https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2025.2563239
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
Corbett-Hone, M., Benner, M. J., Lipp, N. S., & Johnson, N. L.S (2022). Chapter 8: Internalized sexism (pp. 181-206). In J. Estrellado, L. Felipe, and J. Celestial, (Eds.) Clinical interventions for internalized oppression. Cognella & APA Division 45.
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
2026
Advocate of the Year, American Psychological Association – Division 17, Section for the Advancement of Feminist Psychology, 2026
Florence Denmark Mentoring Award, Association for Women in Psychology
2024
Fellow, American Psychological Association – Division 17
2022
Christian Ladd-Franklin Award, The Association for Women in Psychology
2018
Laura Brown Award, American Psychological Association – Division 34, Section 4
Ph.D. University of Akron, Counseling Psychology
Dissertation: Measuring rape culture with college students and its role in bystander intervention
M.A. University of Akron, Counseling Psychology
B.S. John Carroll University, Psychology
Honors Thesis: Denial and the Stereotype Threat: Stereotyping Serial Killers in Majority and Nonmajority Cultures