My training as a human geographer and a feminist scholar has taught me to think about how what we take for granted, or as “normal” has actually come to be through historical, economic, social, and spatial processes.

My research studies emergent ethical and political frameworks that address the ecological and social crises of the contemporary moment. I am informed by decolonial and healing justice frameworks, feminist work on embodiment, somatics, critical health studies, medical anthropology, posthumanism, affect studies, and performance theory.

I draw on my training in qualitative social sciences, feminist methods, as well as the creative praxis of GeoHumanitites scholarship.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Tucson, AZ with Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) working on a NOAA funded project about the social impacts of wildfire in the rural Southwest.

My PhD research focused on politicized healing in contemporary North America.

My BA and MA research focused on psychosocial accompaniment in human rights trials in Guatemala.

PUBLICATIONS:

Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca (2025) “On the therapist's couch and in the streets: Politicized approaches to healing trauma and embodying liberation in the US and Canada” Political Geography, DOI:10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103367

Patterson-Markowitz, Rebecca; Oglesby, Elizabeth; and Marston, Sallie (2012) "“Subjects of Change”: Feminist Geopolitics and Gendered Truth-Telling in Guatemala," Journal of International Women's Studies: Vol. 13: Iss. 4, Article 6.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol13/iss4/6