Faculty and staff

Professor Rodgers is a faculty member in the School of Culture, Media and Society. She completed her BA and PhD in Sociology at McGill University and her MA in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Professor Rodgers has a wide range of research interests but is interested broadly in the intersections of social movements, media and cultural change.  Professor Rodgers’ past projects include the Vietnam War-era American migration to Canada (Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia with UBC Press) and a study of the contemporary history of feminist organizing in Canada. Her current work on true crime podcasting considers how the stories we listen to shape the way we think about crime and violence, a project for which she has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant.

PhD, (Sociology) McGill University

MA, (Sociology) University of Toronto

BA, (Sociology) McGill University

Books

Kathleen Rodgers. 2018. Protest, Activism and Social Movements Oxford University Press.

Kathleen Rodgers and Howard Ramos 2015. (eds). 2015. Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies, UBC Press.

Kathleen Rodgers. 2014. Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia, UBC Press, 2014.

Chapters in Books

Rodgers, K., & Scobie, W. 2024. Unsettling Sociology Curriculum: Indigenous Content in Introductory Sociology Textbooks. Teaching Sociology, 0(0) https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X241248185

Rodgers, K. (Forthcoming 2024), Are True Crime Podcasts Feminist? What a Content Analysis of the Most-listened-to True Crime Podcasts tell us in Paquet, L. & R. Williamson (Eds), NTrue Crime and Women: Writers, Readers, and Representations. Routledge

Hodge, Samarah and Kathleen Rodgers. (forthcoming), #MENSTRUATION: Instagram Users Resisting Menstrual Stigma In Scala, F., & Smith, L. (Eds), Northern Blood: The Politics of Menstruation in Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press

Howard Ramos and Kathleen Rodgers. 2015. “Introduction” in in Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies, UBC Press.

Kathleen Rodgers and Howard Ramos, “Conclusion” in Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies, UBC Press.

Kathleen Rodgers, 2015. “American Immigration, the Canadian Counterculture and the Politicization of the West Kootenay Environmental Commons, 1968-1988”, Countercultures and the Environment, Colin Coates (ed), University of Calgary Press.,

Kathleen Rodgers. 2015. "What Shapes the West's Human Rights Focus?." The Social Movement Reader, Jasper, J. and J. Goodwin, eds, 2015 Reprint., 345-353.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Kathleen Rodgers (2022) "F*cking Politeness" and "Staying Sexy” while doing it: Intimacy, Interactivity and the feminist politics of true crime podcasts, Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2022.2098799

Kathleen Rodgers and Willow Scobie. 2019. “Diversions, distractions, and privileges: consultation and the governance of mining in Nunavut” Studies in Political Economy

Kathleen Rodgers and Darcy Ingram. 2019. “Decolonizing environmentalism in the Arctic? Greenpeace, complicity and negotiating the contradictions of solidarity in the Inuit Nunangat” Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements

Kathleen Rodgers and Willow Scobie. 2015. “Sealfies, Seals and Celebs: Expressions of Inuit Resilience in the Twitter Era”, Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements

Kathleen Rodgers and Darcy Ingram, 2014. “Ideological Migration and War Resistance in British Columbia: An Analysis of Counterculture Politics and Community Networks among Doukhobor, Quaker, and American Migrants during the Vietnam War Era,” American Review of Canadian Studies.

Willow Scobie and Kathleen Rodgers, 2013. “Contestations of resource extraction projects via digital media in two Nunavut communities,” Inuit Studies

Melanie Knight and Kathleen Rodgers, 2012. “Operationalizing Neoliberalism: Women’s Organizations, Status of Women Canada, and the Struggle for Progressive Social Change in Canada,” Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.

Kathleen Rodgers and Melanie Knight, 2011. “’You just felt the collective wind being knocked out of us:' The Deinstitutionalization of Feminism and the Survival of Women's Organizing in Canada,” International Women's Studies Forum

Rodgers, K.,  2010. “‘Anger is Why We're all Here’: Mobilizing and Managing Emotions in a Professional Social Movement Organization”, Social Movement Studies, 9(3), 273-291.

Rodgers Kathleen. 2011. “When do Opportunities become Trade-offs for Social Movement Organizations? Assessing Media Impact in the Global Human Rights Movement,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 34(4), 1087-1114.

Rodgers, Kathleen. 2006. “What Shapes the West's Human Rights Focus?”, Contexts, (with J. Ron and H. Ramos)

Rodgers, Kathleen., 2005. “Transnational Information Politics:  Amnesty International's Country Reporting, 1986-2000”, International Studies Quarterly, (with J. Ron and H. Ramos)