Jodi Dueck-Read

Dr. Jodi Dueck-Read is Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies and Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies at Canadian Mennonite University, where she also serves as Director of Research and Program Grants. She holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from University of Manitoba, MA in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, and BA in Spanish and Political Science from Furman University.

Her research encompasses peacebuilding, facilitation methodologies, U.S.-Mexico border studies, migration, social movements, 2SLGBTQIA studies, and anti-oppression pedagogy. She is a trained Walls to Bridges facilitator with experience teaching in carceral settings.

Publications focus on feminist/queer pedagogies, prison facilitation, trauma-informed financial wellbeing, and border justice ethnography. Recent works critically examine care work economics, decolonizing methodologies, and Mennonite peacebuilding through queer lenses.

Applied work includes program evaluations for Mennonite Central Committee in Guatemala and Bolivia. Community engagement features migration justice advocacy at the U.S.-Mexico border with West Coast MCC and service in Chile/Bolivia.