Genevieve Fuji Johnson

Areas of interest

Research and Supervision Fields:

STATUS: NOT ACCEPTING NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS

-Feminist Social and Political Thought
-Solidaristic Normative Theory
-Sex Work Policy and Governance
-Governance and Public Policy
-Deliberative Democracy Theory and Practice

Teaching Streams:

-Justice and Law
-Public Policy and Democratic Governance
-Research Methods and Analysis

Education

• BA (honours), Simon Fraser University
• MSc, London School of Economics
• PhD, University of Toronto

Biography

Genevieve Fuji Johnson (she/her) studies and teaches feminist political thought (with an emphasis on racialized and minoritized critical scholars), solidaristic scholarship, democratic theory, interpretive policy analysis, qualitative methodology, and a range of current public policy issues.

Her current research, with sex worker rights activist, educator, and writer, Kerry Porth, focuses on the governance of sex work in Canadian and US cities. They are currently working on a book project, and corresponding graphic novel, entitled Beneath the Red Umbrella: Sex and Solidarity! In this project, they develop a case for solidaristic scholarship explicitly serving the justice struggles of marginalized communities. For a taste, please check out their comic strips so far (https://anunusualacademic.com/comics/). Dr. Johnson also researches discriminatory practices and policies within academia, specifically, Canadian universities. In this work, she centers the experiences of racialized and minoritized people as sources of knowledge and transformation. Her research, past and present, has been funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants.

Dr. Johnson is a Dialogue Associate of the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, SFU and an Associate of the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis, University of Canberra.

Genevieve sits on the Board of the Canadian Political Science Association as Past-President, having served as President in 2023-2024. In previous service work, she was a member of the SFU Faculty Association Executive Committee, the Living in Community Steering Committee, and the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC) Board of Directors. She was President of DEWC from 2017-2020. In addition, she was Treasurer of Surfrider Pacific Rim Chapter, 2022-2023. She is a long-time volunteer for the WISH Drop-In Centre Society.

Selected Publications

Johnson, Genevieve Fuji, El Chenier, and Özlem Sensoy. 2024. “EDI and the University Leadership Ladder,” Gender in the Canadian Academy, eds., Bessma Momani and Rachael Johnstone. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Ackerly, Brooke, Luis Cabrera, Fonna Forman, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Chris Tenove, and Antje Weiner. 2024 “Unearthing Grounded Normative Theory: Practices and Commitments of Empirical Research in Political Theory,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 27 (2), 156-182

Coburn, Elaine, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Joyce Green, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, and Gina Starblanket. 2024. “Anti-Racist and Indigenous Feminism and the Generative Power of Disruption,” Feministing in Political Science, eds. Stephanie Paterson, Fiona McDonald, Nisha Nath, Alana Cattapan, and Ethel Tungohan. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. 49-68.

MacKenzie, Megan, Özlem Sensoy, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Nathalie Sinclair, and Laurel Weldon. 2023. “How Universities Gaslight EDI&I Initiatives: Mapping Institutional Resistance to Structural Change,” International Journal of Education, Policy, and Leadership 19 (1).
Johnson, Genevieve Fuji and Kerry Porth. 2023. “Sex Worker Rights are Human Rights: An Approach to Solidaristic Normative Theory.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 25 (1), 101-126.

Johnson, Genevieve Fuji. 2021. “Research Transparency: Less about Rigor and More about Responsibility.” Qualitative & Multi-Method Research Newsletter 19 (1), 14-18.

Johnson, Genevieve Fuji and Kerry Porth. 2021. “Sex Work Governance Models: Variations in a Criminalized Context.” Sexuality Research and Social Policy 18 (2), 233-245.

Johnson, Genevieve Fuji and Robert Howsam. 2020. “Whiteness, Power, and the Politics of Demographics in the Governance of the Canadian Academy.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 53 (3), 676-694.