Jodi Dueck-Read she/her
Director of Research and Program Grants; Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies and Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies
Jodi Dueck-Read is a facilitator, social activist, administrator and researcher. In addition to teaching courses at Canadian Mennonite University, she is a trained facilitator with Walls to Bridges and enjoys opportunities to teach inside and outside students.
Prior to re-locating to Manitoba, Jodi lived and worked at the US-Mexico border where she was Associate for Migration and Peacebuilding with West Coast Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). She also worked with MCC in Santiago, Chile and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She enjoys teaching adult students, speaking Spanish, and participating in actions intended to provoke social change.
Areas of Teaching
Social change, violence, facilitation, peacebuilding, ethics, and group dynamics
Education
PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies, St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba; MA in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University; BA in Spanish and Political Science, Furman University
Work in Detail
Teaching
CRS 1200 Introduction to Conflict Resolution Studies
CRS 2231 Non-violent Social Change
CRS 2271 Conflict within Groups
CRS 3231 Ethics in Conflict Resolution Studies
CRS & IDS Practicum Courses
Dismantling Racism in International Development Studies (IDS) and Conflict Resolution Studies (CRS)
Research
Peacebuilding, facilitation and group processes, U.S.-Mexico border, migration, social movements, 2SLGBTQIA studies, anti-oppression scholarship on teaching and learning.
Publications
Dueck-Read, J. (2023). Queering Mennonite Peacebuilding. Journal of Mennonite Studies. Vol 30, Issue 1.
Dueck-Read, J.; Nathaneal Plourde & Tam Le (2023). Facilitating group discussion in prison: Decolonizing, destigmatizing and egalitarian approaches. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Volume 32, Number 2.
Buckland, J., Nur, W., & Dueck-Read, J. (2023). The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project. Social Policy and Society, 1-13.
Nur, W., J. Dueck-Read, & J. Buckland (2022). Leaning Against the Wind: The Ongoing Impacts of Trauma on Financial Wellbeing and Decision Making. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives.
Dueck-Read, J. (2019). Ethnography for Border Justice: Methodological Considerations for Peacebuilding. In L. Reimer, K. Standish, and C. Thiessen (Eds) Expanding Modes of Enquiry in Peace and Conflict Studies: Research from the Mauro Centre, Volume 2. New York, NY: Lexington Books.
Dueck-Read, J. (2019). Nonviolent social movements: Advancing justice on paths to peace. In T. Matyok, Imani M. Scott, and S. Bryne's (Eds), Routledge Companion to the Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies. New York: Routledge.
Dueck-Read, J. (2018). Racialized and Gendered Peacebuilding in the U.S.-Mexico Border Justice Movement. In C. Thiessen, L. Reimer and K. Standish (Eds.), Conflict Transformation, Storytelling, and Peace Building: Research from the Mauro Centre. New York, NY: Lexington Books.
Applied
Consultant and Lead Evaluator, Program Review (2019); Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Guatemala City, Guatemala
Consultant and Lead Evaluator, Program Review (2017); MCC, Santa Cruz, Bolivia