Biography
Daniel Nguyễn (he/him, any pronouns) is a first year doctoral student working with Dr. Nathan Todd. He received his B.A. in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in 2022. Daniel is originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, and is the son of two Vietnamese-American immigrants who migrated to the U.S. in 1997. Prior to UIUC, Daniel worked in the labs of Drs. Cynthia Willis-Esqueda, Kathryn Holland, and Becca Brock at UNL, conducting various research, which focused on areas such as the intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and racial/ethnic identity, bias against Mexican Americans, minority stress of LGBTQ+ people living in rural Nebraska, university mandatory reporting policies on sexual assault, and plurisexual identity in women attracted to more than one gender.
Research Interests
Daniel's current research projects center on:
- Incongruent accrual of sexual capital among queer masculinized people, at the intersection of sexual, gender, racial expressions (e.g., how are exclusion and fetishization conceptually related? How does racialized sexual discrimination manifest (i.e., exclusion, fetishization)? What is self-fetishization?)
- Essentialization and binarism of sexual roles among queer masculinized people (e.g., how are power dynamics implicated, established, and replicated in the hierarchy of sex roles? What is sex role binarism (SRB) conceptually, and how does it impact outcomes? Does SRB reflect a true, essential, immutable tendency among queer masculinized people?)
Education
B.A. in Psychology and Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2022)
Courses Taught
PSYC 239: Community Psychology (TA)
Recent Publications
- Cipriano, A. E., Nguyen, D., Holland, K. J. (2022). “Bisexuality isn’t exclusionary”: A qualitative examination of bisexual definitions and gender inclusivity concerns among plurisexual women. Journal of Bisexuality. Advance online publication.
- Cipriano, A. E., Nguyen, D., & Holland, K. J. (2022). “In order to be bi, you have to prove it”: A qualitative examination of plurisexual women’s experiences with external and internalized pressure to “prove” their identities. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication.