Emily Johnston
MA Student
Gender Studies
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Supervisor: Scott Morgensen
Research interests: surveillance studies, trans studies, queer studies, transnational women-led/queer social movements, social policy, neoliberalism
Emily Johnston (she/her) received her Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Trent University in Global Development and Gender & Social Justice Studies. Emily鈥檚 research focuses upon the intersections of queer studies, trans studies, coercive control, and surveillance utilizing sports as a point of analysis. Her prior research investigates how sports utilize surveillance mechanisms, consciously and subconsciously, to conform and coerce unruly bodies through regulatory mechanisms such as trans-exclusionary sports policies.