Armani Beck

Armani Beck is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College’s Society of Fellows, affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She earned her PhD in Sociology from Rutgers University in 2024.

Her research focuses on the fluidity of male privilege through intersectional lenses, analyzing transgender narratives to understand how privilege is gained, lost, and maintained. Key areas include race, gender, sexuality, and formal theory construction.

• 2024: Mononormativity: The Social Elevation of the Singular (Symbolic Interaction journal)
• 2025: Book chapter Trans Men Navigating Male Privilege and the Complexities of Intersectional Identities in Interpreting Identity.

Teaching spans courses on race relations, sociology of gender, individual-society dynamics, media representations, and mental illness. She employs interdisciplinary approaches and qualitative methodologies to critique systemic inequalities.