Trenton's work falls across categories and disciplines to create a robust research program grounded in qualitative or mixed methods. His core disciplinary work was on gender, sexuality, masculinity, and embodiment. He has since pivoted toward applied health services and VA-based research.
He has thus studied a range of populations from Veterans facing food insecurity, PTSD, spinal cord injuries, and military exposures, to patients navigating dialysis, bladder cancer, fetal anomalies, or UTIs, and even men negotiating masculinity as baton twirlers, pole dancers, and ballet dancers.
He has thus studied a range of populations from Veterans facing food insecurity, PTSD, spinal cord injuries, and military exposures, to patients navigating dialysis, bladder cancer, fetal anomalies, or UTIs, and even men negotiating masculinity as baton twirlers, pole dancers, and ballet dancers.
My foundational body of work engages sociological perspectives on hybrid masculinity, embodiment, and sexuality in scholarship published in Gender & Society, Men and Masculinities, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Sociology of Sport Journal.