Robin Dembroff (they/them) is an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Yale University. They received their Ph.D in philosophy from Princeton University in 2017, and their M.A. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 2014.
Dembroff works on feminist and LGBTQ philosophy, with a focus on what gender is and how it shapes social outcomes, experiences, and ways of knowing. Their current bookproject, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Weaponizes Gender, is under contract with Oxford University Press, with a tentative release date in 2024.
Dembroff's work has been published in professional journals spanning three disciplines, and appears in popular venues including Scientific American, The Boston Review, TIME, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books. In 2019, Dembroff co-authored an amicus brief in support of gay and transgender employees, which was submitted to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of over seventy philosophy professors. They have given over a dozen keynotes and named lectures, and in 2022, were namedone of twenty “shapers of the future” under 40 in academia and ideas by Britannica.
