I was raised in Minnesota and attended college in Oregon. After finishing a PhD in History at the University of Wisconsin, I returned to Oregon to spend several years teaching as an adjunct. I then worked as a rare book librarian at the Medical School for Washington University in St. Louis, James Mad...
As a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies, Austin's research interests look at the lived experiences of students of color in historically white fraternities. His current fields of research are titled “From Men’s Studies to Masculine Theory” and “Film and Media Studies,” both focusing masculine iden...