The National Healthy Masculinity Conversation Series
Conversation #2
“‘Leaps and Bounds from Where We Were Before’: The Healthy Masculinity Campus Athletics Project at Doane University”
The second conversation featured:
Suzannah Rogan from Doane University
Jeremy Hardy from MCSR
MCSR’s Healthy Masculinity Campus Athletics Project (HMCAP) focuses on engaging college athletes as allies in preventing gender-based violence and creating a safer campus culture. Athletes have played a historical role in advocating for social justice and cultural change. It is this spirit of leadership, advocacy, and activism that HMCAP cultivates on college campuses. This conversation is a chance to hear Suzannah Rogan, Director of Campus Advocacy, Prevention, and Education (CAPE) Project at Doane University, share her experiences implementing HMCAP.
Suzannah Rogan, (she/her) is the Director of the Campus Advocacy, Prevention, and Education (CAPE) Project and a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Specialist at Doane University (Crete, NE). As the CAPE Project Director, she has been instrumental in leading violence prevention efforts across Doane University’s four campuses, increasing student contacts by 750% from the year prior to her arrival to the current academic year. The main focus of her efforts has been engaging men on campus in this movement.
Utilizing MCSR’s Healthy Masculinity Campus Athletics Project, she partnered with the Athletics Department to create an influential program that male student-athletes would complete every two years. This has blossomed into a peer educator program, passive campaigning, a partnership with fraternities, and research toward a female student-athlete program and potential theatre program.
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Suzannah holds a Master of Science in Gender, Media and Culture from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she focused on Masculinities Studies and Violence, ultimately, writing her dissertation on how the media constructs a shooter’s masculinity after a mass shooting. She has presented her continued research on masculinity, power, and prevention at numerous conferences as well as consulted with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and various universities. In January, she started in the second cohort of the Executive Program in Leadership Strategy for Violence and Abuse Prevention at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice, the Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse, and the Center for Social Impact Strategy. Here she will continue to fine tune her approach to engaging men on college campuses in the movement against violence and how to help others replicate the success she has seen with men at Doane University.