Robin Dembroff is an associate professor in the philosophy department at Yale University. Through high school, Dembroff was homeschooled in rural California. Dembroff then attended the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, receiving a minor in Biblical Studies and a major in Philosophy. They went on to receive an M.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D from Princeton University.

Dembroff works on philosophical questions of how we perceive and respond to ourselves and others, focusing especially on how cultural stories and images shape these relations, as well as our life outcomes, experiences, and ways of knowing. Dembroff's first book, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality, is forthcoming in 2026 with Oxford University Press.

Dembroff is a person of Christian experience, of trans experience, of rural experience, of American experience, and much more. Dembroff's writing, like their life, openly defies genre: their work has been published in professional journals spanning four disciplines, and appears in popular venues including Scientific American, The Boston Review, TIME, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books. Dembroff has collaborated on amicus briefs submitted to the United States Supreme Court, and has given over a dozen keynotes and named lectures. You can also find Dembroff featured on several podcasts including Slate's Hear Me Out and Hi-Phi Nation. In 2022, Britannica named Dembroff one of twenty “shapers of the future” under 40 in academia and ideas.
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