Who am I? I’m a post-doctoral University Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Asheville in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. I recently earned my PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Davis! A bit about me, I hold a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame with a minor in Poverty Studies as well.

My research explores gay men’s participation in right-wing social movements. Since starting graduate school I have primarily worked on research concerning violence; conservative social movements; masculinities and gender; race/ethnicity; and homonationalism. These research interests have grown out of a continuing commitment to “study up” as Laura Nader suggests - exploring the mechanisms which maintain violent systems of inequality and which shape structures of social power.

This is reflected in my current interest in conservative gay social movements and the construction of the gay right - spanning political organizations like the Log Cabin Republicans to the far-right National Socialist League (a neo-Nazi organization founded in 1974 explicitly for gay neo-Nazis).

Areas of Interest: Social movements; Race/ethnicity; gender; and homonationalism