Eli Glen Godwin

B.A. Amherst College, USA, 1999
EdM (Teaching and Curriculum), Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2001
MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2022

Eli/Glen (he/il) comes to the ISGP and UBC after 15 years as a secondary-level science educator and 8 years in public health research focused on sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth. He serves as a consultant and speaker regarding transgender issues ranging from drafting athletic policies to creating inclusive classroom climates and is a member of the Institutional Review Board at The Fenway Institute, an SGM-focused health centre in Boston, MA. His proposed dissertation will focus on the pathways by which SGM youth acquire language to describe their identities, the ways that “Don’t Say Gay”-style laws and policies attempt to interrupt these pathways, and the resultant impacts on the health and happiness of SGM persons and communities. In his non-academic time, Glen enjoys curling (“chess on ice”), skiing, ice climbing, and just about any other endeavour on frozen water.

My research to date has focused primarily on the health and well-being of SGM youth, particularly trans youth, and their families. For my MPH practicum, I worked with the UBC-affiliated Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre to conduct a review of Canadian literature that was included in a report issued by the British Columbia Representative for Children and Youth about the needs of gender minority youth.

At UBC, I plan to conduct research with a liberatory focus aimed at examining and dismantling the systemic forces that target SGM people. By integrating methodologies from multiple disciplines and applying emancipatory knowledges developed by and for marginalized communities, I want to elucidate the pathways of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI)-related language access for SGM youth, classify and map SOGI language restriction policy landscapes, and examine the impacts of such policies on both individuals and communities.

Prism Award (annual award for meaningful service and support to the LGBTQ+ community), Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA, 2022
Conference Stipend Awards, Women, Gender, and Health Concentration, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA, 2022, 2019
Broomstones Curling Club President’s Award (volunteer of the year, for service related to the club’s COVID response), Broomstones Curling Club, Wayland, USA, 2021
Community Scholars Award ($5000), Columbia University, New York, USA, 2019 (declined)
Second prize for “Designing Shelters for Dignity”: Social Determinants of Health Track, Hacking Public Health. Boston, USA, 2019
National Science Foundation/Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Teacher Education Collaborative (STEMTEC) Science Teaching Scholarship, 1998
National Merit Scholar, 1995

Godwin, E. G., Moore, L. M., Sansfaçon, A. P., Nishman, M. M., Rosal, M. C., & Katz-Wise, S. L. 2024. Experiences of cisgender youth with a transgender and/or nonbinary sibling in Family Process; 00: 1-21

Katz-Wise SL, Sarda V, Line EC, Marchwinski B, Budge SL, Godwin EG, Moore LBM, Ehrensaft D, Rosal MC, Thomson KA. Longitudinal family functioning and mental health in transgender and nonbinary youth and their families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2024 (Vol. 33): 1321-1335.

Sinclair J, Godwin E, Coronel Villalobos M, Rana M, Saewyc E. Trans, Nonbinary, and Two Spirit Young People’s Experiences of Government Care and Health Services in BC. Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, University of British Columbia; 2023.

Streed CJ, Ben-Arieh A, Patel S, Godwin EG, McNair L. Ensuring equitable research participation: Explicit inclusion of sexual and gender minority populations. SGIM Forum. July 2022.

Tabaac AR, Reynolds CA, Godwin EG, Katz-Wise SL, Charlton BM. 2002. Sexual minority men’s perspectives and experiences of adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy prevention. Journal of Sex Research; 59(7), 886-896.

Katz-Wise SL, Godwin EG, Parsa N, Brown CA, Pullen Sansfaçon A, Goldman R, MacNish M, Rosal MC, Austin SB. 2022. Using family and ecological systems approaches to conceptualize family and community-based experiences of transgender and/or nonbinary youth from the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 9(1), 21-36.

Tabaac AR, Godwin EG, Jonestrask C, Charlton BM, Katz-Wise SL. Healthcare providers’ perspectives on pregnancy experiences among sexual and gender minority youth. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare. 2022; 32:100702.

Katz-Wise SL, Boskey ER, Godwin EG, Thomson K, Post J, Gordon AR. “We’re moving in the right direction. Still a long way to go”: Experiences and perceptions of the climate for LGBTQ+ employees at a pediatric hospital. Journal of Homosexuality. 2021 Jun 11; 1-19.

Godwin EG, Moore LB M. Relationships with Siblings. In: Goldberg AE, Beemyn G, eds. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2021.

Charlton BM, Reynolds CA, Tabaac AR, Godwin EG, Porsch LM, Agénor M, Grimstad FW, Katz-Wise SL. Unintended and teen pregnancy experiences of trans masculine people living in the United States. International Journal of Transgender Health. 22:1-2,65-76. DOI: 10.1080/26895269.2020.1824692