Dr. John D. Foubert is an interdisciplinary scholar who serves as Professor of Educational Leadership at Union University.  His research focuses broadly on issues of gender with emphases in gender-based violence, bystander intervention, the harms of pornography, and college student development.
 
Dr. Foubert’s scholarly impact is strong by most any standard.  In 2017, his external funding as PI and consultant on grants and contracts crossed the $1,000,000 mark.  He has published 49 peer reviewed journal articles, most in top tier, high impact journals in Psychology, Gender Studies, and Education.  His 11 published books focus on translating theory and research to practice in areas that are critical in higher education and society at large.  His seven books about preventing gender-based violence have been used nationally and internationally to create prevention programs for gender-based violence in hundreds of colleges, universities, and military units worldwide. 
 
Over time Dr. Foubert has developed the reputation of being one of the most productive and respected scholars in the area of preventing gender-based violence on college campuses and in the military.  He has used his God-given gifts in scholarship with his many undergraduate and graduate students to facilitate their learning of research design and implementation.  Over 100 students have co-presented with him at national and international conferences; more than 30 have published with him in peer reviewed journals.
 
The focus of most of his refereed journal articles and peer reviewed books is the prevention of gender-based sexual violence.  In 1993 he authored the script for a standardized, research-based presentation designed to educate college men about rape, titled The Men’s Program.  This program is grounded in social psychology theories concerning attitude and behavior change and is guided in its development by the available scholarship on rape prevention.  His dissertation, the first longitudinal study to evaluate a rape prevention program, found this program to yield the longest change in attitude and behavioral intent in men ever reported in the research literature.  This dissertation was selected as runner up for a national dissertation of the year award. The year he earned his Ph.D. he also founded the national nonprofit organization, One in Four.  Dr. Foubert led three dozen professionals from 7 states to found this organization.  In its 20 years of existence, One in Four presented rape prevention programs to over 100,000 college students nationwide and set up chapters of its organization at over 50 higher education institutions. 
 
Over time, his research has moved from short-term pre/post testing, to a longitudinal study with quantitative and qualitative elements, to deeper qualitative inquiry into the program’s effects, to more sophisticated quantitative and qualitative studies.  By matching the appropriate method to address particular questions, his research has led to the continuous improvement of The Men’s Program and aforementioned use by colleges and universities across the country, implementation at the United States Naval Academy, and use by The United States Coast Guard Academy.
 
Dr. Foubert has a related line of research in the area of human sexuality that explores the harms of pornography.  Dr. Foubert’s peer reviewed research established that increased pornography use is associated with decreased bystander intervention.  
 
Dr. Foubert has made over 300 peer reviewed, invited, and consulting presentations.  Dr. Foubert has been flown overseas by the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force to train personnel who prevent sexual assault across the European theater.  He has shared his expertise with the White House, has briefed top brass at the Pentagon who sought to end rape in the military, and testified before Congress to help achieve the same objective. He also presents regularly to colleges and the military.  
 
Dr. Foubert has been recognized as an exceptional scholar in the field of college student affairs through the Annuit Coeptis Senior Professional award in 2011 from the American College Personnel Association.  He has served on the editorial board for half a dozen prestigious journals in both Education and Gender Studies.  Recently he accepted invitations to help launch two new peer reviewed journals as a founding member of both editorial boards. From 2007 to 2022, Dr. Foubert served the U.S. Army as their Highly Qualified Expert for Sexual Assault Prevention.  In this collateral Civilian role, he served in a position equivalent to a one-star General.
 
The following data demonstrates the impact of his scholarship:
 
Article and book citations:                                                                              4,678                
H-index                                                                                                                34
i-10 index                                                                                                             47
 
Currently, Dr. Foubert is focusing his research in two areas.  First, he is helping is many doctoral graduates publish their research.  Second, he is working to understand what leads men to stop viewing pornography.

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Hardly a researcher in the area of rape prevention and bystander intervention programs neglects to cite his decades of scholarship. In addition, Dr. Foubert is sought after by national media to explain research about a host of issues in higher education.  He has appeared on several different CNN and NPR news programs and has been cited by the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and The Washington Post.  Ever the optimist, Dr. Foubert anticipates that his highest impact contributions are yet to come.