Professional Title
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Criminology
Chris Godsey has worked in the Minnesota Department of Corrections Restorative Justice Program since January of 2022. A primary part of his job is helping people write apology letters for actions that have caused severe harm. From about 1998 until 2019 he taught writing and cultural-studies courses at UMD and the College of St. Scholastica. From 2010 until late 2024 he co-facilitated weekly change-based conversations among men arrested for using violence against women. And from the middle of 2019 until the end of 2021 he co-coordinated the Men as Peacemakers Domestic Violence Restorative Circles Program. He lives in Duluth’s Chester Park neighborhood with his wife, Shannon, and their super-mutt Mocha.