Research
My research interests include gender, sex, and sexuality; nationalism; political sociology; race and ethnicity; sociological theory; feminist theory and research; and both historical and field methods. I am particularly interested in racial formation, intra-communal violence, masculinity, and the construction of the political self. I address these theoretical concerns by examining how right-wing gay organizations in both the United States and abroad construct and deploy a nationalist political subject crafted from their racial, sexual, and gender projects.
Current Research Projects
In his work on white reconstruction, Dr. Dylan Rodriguez entreats scholars to take seriously how white racial projects have transformed since the Civil Rights Era. Responding to this call, this paper uses a historical analysis of white American gay men in two right-wing social movements, the National Socialist League and the Log Cabin Republicans, to explore the evolution of multicultural white supremacy.
The Powerful As Victims: Multicultural White Supremacy and White Gay Men
This book explores how, through the process of multicultural white supremacy, male supremacism, and social darwinism right-wing LGBT figures and organizations locate themselves within a particular social and historical lineage. Spanning continents and multiple archives, the book examines the relationship between the construction of homosexuality as a category and the construction of conservatism.
