Rae Johnson
Professor
Research Psychology
School of Consciousness and Transformation
Pronouns: They/Them
Email: raejohnson@ciis.edu
Research Interests
• Embodied social justice
• Embodied research methods
• Embodied critical pedagogy
Biography
Rae Johnson, PhD, RSW, RSMT is a social worker, somatic movement therapist, and scholar/activist working at the intersections of embodiment and social justice. Rae’s approach to their teaching and research is informed by decades of frontline work with homeless youth, women in addiction recovery, psychiatric survivors, and members of the queer community. Prior to their current appointment as a professor in the Somatic Psychology doctoral program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Rae served as the co-chair of the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-psychologies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Rae is the author of several books, including Embodied Social Justice (Routledge, 2018) and Embodied Activism (North Atlantic Books, 2023).
Education
PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
MA, Lesley University
BIS, University of Waterloo
Courses
ITPS 7186 - Embodied Social Justice
ITPS 7197 - Embodied Inquiry
Publications
Johnson, R. (2023). Embodied activism. North Atlantic Books.
Johnson, R. (2022). Embodied social justice (2nd ed). Routledge.
Johnson, R. (2022). Spring special issue: power, privilege, and difference in embodied psychotherapies. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 17(1), 1-3.
Johnson, R. (2021). Embodied research ethics. In J. Tantia (Ed.) The art and science of embodied research design. Routledge, pp. 51-60.
Johnson, R. (2021). Body stories: Researching and performing the embodied experience of oppression. In J. Tantia (Ed.). The art and science of embodied research design. Routledge, pp. 195-205.
Siddique, J., & Johnson, R. (2021). Accessing the untapped resource of humankind through critical cultural action & embodied arts praxis. Erudito: Journal of the World Academy of Art & Science. (3) 1, 41-57.
Johnson, R. (2019). Body as home: A critical somatic approach to working with homeless youth. In P. Dunn (Ed.) Holistic healing: Research, theories, and practices. Canadian Scholars Press, pp. 349-355.
Johnson, R. (2019). Oppression and embodiment in somatic psychotherapy. In H. Payne (Ed.) Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy. Routledge, pp. 351-359.
Johnson, R. (2019). Engaging strategic curiosity: Toward an embodied relational approach to research in gestalt therapy. In M. Clemmens (Ed.) Embodied Relational Gestalt. Gestalt Press, pp. 273-291.
Caldwell, C. & Johnson, R. (2018). Embodying difference: Addressing issues of diversity and social justice in dance/movement therapy research. In C. Berrol and R. Cruz (Eds.) Dance movement therapists in action: A working guide to research options, 3rd Ed. Charles C. Thomas Publishers, pp. 125-144.
Johnson, R. (2018). Queering/querying the body. In C. Caldwell and L. Leighton (Eds.) Oppression and the body: Roots, resistance, and resolutions. North Atlantic Books, pp. 97-111.
Keynote
Opening Keynote for the 2023 Harvard Business School's Gender, Race, and Equity Symposium