Research Interests
"The personal is political." This feminist slogan fits for Dan's research interests. As a former student affairs administrator and his own positionality as a White, able-bodied, gay male from a rural middle-class family, his research is rooted in his personal experiences and questioning aspects of his work and/or identity as well as the intersections between the personal and professional.
Dan's specific research areas involve intersectionality and student development in higher education, college men and masculinities, LGBTQ+ issues in higher education, college student leadership development and education, and sexual violence in higher education.
Currently, Dan recently completed a longitudinal five-year follow up study with nine of his 17 dissertation participants to understand how they continue to make meaning of their multiple identities post-college. Additionally, he has expanded upon his dissertation work by investigating how sexual minority cisgender males attending colleges and universities in the United States and Canada make meaning of their multiple identities, specifically their sense of masculinities and sexuality. He is currently at work on a new book detailing the findings around these studies.
He is also in the midst of finishing a new line of research around men who survived sexual violence and coercion during college within the past 10 years. The findings from this study are powerful and important; Dan hopes that the data will help provide necessary change in the conversations about sexual violence prevention in higher education in better supporting men who are survivors of sexual trauma.
In 2017, Dan and his colleague, Paige Haber-Curran, published Critical Perspectives on Gender and Student Leadership, a monograph through the New Directions for Student Leadership series (Jossey-Bass). In 2019, Dan and his colleague, Brian McGowan, published their co-edited book, Men and Masculinities on Campus: Theoretical Foundations and Promising Practices, in 2020 (Stylus Publishing).
Dan's specific research areas involve intersectionality and student development in higher education, college men and masculinities, LGBTQ+ issues in higher education, college student leadership development and education, and sexual violence in higher education.
Currently, Dan recently completed a longitudinal five-year follow up study with nine of his 17 dissertation participants to understand how they continue to make meaning of their multiple identities post-college. Additionally, he has expanded upon his dissertation work by investigating how sexual minority cisgender males attending colleges and universities in the United States and Canada make meaning of their multiple identities, specifically their sense of masculinities and sexuality. He is currently at work on a new book detailing the findings around these studies.
He is also in the midst of finishing a new line of research around men who survived sexual violence and coercion during college within the past 10 years. The findings from this study are powerful and important; Dan hopes that the data will help provide necessary change in the conversations about sexual violence prevention in higher education in better supporting men who are survivors of sexual trauma.
In 2017, Dan and his colleague, Paige Haber-Curran, published Critical Perspectives on Gender and Student Leadership, a monograph through the New Directions for Student Leadership series (Jossey-Bass). In 2019, Dan and his colleague, Brian McGowan, published their co-edited book, Men and Masculinities on Campus: Theoretical Foundations and Promising Practices, in 2020 (Stylus Publishing).
