Robin Dembroff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. They work on feminist and LGBTQ philosophy, and focus on questions related to what gender is and how it shapes social outcomes, experience, and ways of knowing. In addition to scholarly venues, their writing has been featured in popular venues including Scientific American, The Boston Review, TIME, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books. Dembroff’s current book project, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Weaponizes Gender (OUP, 2023) offers a paradigm shift in our understanding of patriarchy. Against the received view that patriarchy privileges men over women, Dembroff argues that patriarchy is an institutionalized system of gendering that primarily privileges “real men”.
