
Aaron Tobler
Website: nw08.american.edu/~atobler
Aaron is a fifth year Ph.D. Candidate with the Department of Anthropology,
College of Arts and Sciences. His current research primarily focuses on homophobia
and the police, with supplemental interests in state agency and mass news
media. He has presented numerous papers at conferences focusing his research
on homophobia in newspaper articles, on a television newsmagazine show and
most recently on homosexual police offier subject positioning. Currently,
his dissertation will study the intersections that state agents (mostly likely
the police in DC) encounter as state agents and as homosexuals. Moreover,
the homophobia they experience as such.
Aaron is from Albany, New York. He went to Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, as an undergraduate, where he double majored in Anthropology and Classical Civilization and minored in Philosophy. Following his graduation in May 2001, he attended SUNY Albany as a non-degree graduate student with their Department of Anthropology. In August 2002, he came to American University to begin his graduate career. In addition to his graduate student responsibilities, he has served as the President of the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Council since April 2005 and it currently on the American University Staff Council.
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