Constance Gordon
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Constance Gordon is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. She is also core faculty and an advisor in Climate HQ, a campus-wide hub that supports the Climate Change Certificate Program and the Climate Justice Leaders Initiative.
Gordon’s transdisciplinary research attends to place-based organizing among food and ecological justice movements, particularly how they challenge land, labor, and housing dispossession through intersectional political critique, mutual aid, and power mapping across geographies. Her latest work concerns creative practices of informal learning and public pedagogy within these organizing spaces as theory-building. Her solo and collaborative research has been published in Environmental Communication, Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Review of Communication, and Frontiers in Communication as well as numerous edited volumes and collections. She is a co-author of the textbook Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S. (Cognella, 2024).
Gordon has interdisciplinary training across the humanities and social sciences, with a Ph.D. and M.A. in Communication (Rhetoric & Culture) as well as Graduate Certificates in Development Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University. Gordon is active in the California Faculty Association (CFA) and holds other roles such as Art Director of Cultural Studies.