Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr

Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. (he/él) is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in the Program in Higher Education Leadership & Policy (PHELP) at The University of Texas at Austin with a dual graduate portfolio in Women & Gender Studies with a specialization in LGBTQ+ Studies and Mexican American & Latinx/a/o Studies. He is a Teaching Assistant for the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts. As well as a past Graduate Research Assistant for Project MALES, and a past Teaching Assistant for the Department of Educational Psychology. He is a 2021-2022 Chancellor Doctoral Incentive Program Fellow with The California State University and a Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Graduate Fellow. He earned his M.S.Ed. in Higher Education & Student Affairs from Indiana University Bloomington and his B.A. in Sociology, concentration in Community Change from San José State University. Lastly, he is the Founder & Executive Director of the LatinX Graduate Student Association at UT Austin.

Gabriel’s work engages, complicates, & interrogates the ways Latinx/o masculinities is understood, specifically for Queer & Trans* Latinx/o collegians when navigating academe as it relates to their gender, ethnicity, sexuality, & dis/ability. As an interdisciplinary educational scholar, his work lives at the intersections of Higher Education, Queer & Trans* Studies, Chicanx & Latinx Studies, and Critical Disability Studies.