Researchers

Dr. Tristan Bridges

Tristan Bridges is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also co-editor of the Sage journal, Men and Masculinities and Interim Director of an interdisciplinary center at UCSB focused on public-facing scholarship.

Tristan’s research examines issues of gender and sexuality, inequality, and change. He has studied communities of bodybuilders, fathers’ rights activists, pro-feminist men, men with “man caves” in their homes, connections between American masculinity and mass shootings, transformations in U.S. sexual demography, and gendered patterns in internet searches on Google.com. His work has appeared in Gender & Society, Signs, The Lancet, the International Review of Sociology, among other venues. Currently, he is writing a new international, interdisciplinary book synthesizing masculinities scholarship with Kristen Barber (with Oxford University Press) and an international, interdisciplinary primer on gender theory and gender inequality with Raewyn Connell (with Polity Press) among other projects.