Rhiannon is a feminist theorist working in the fields of political theory and gender studies. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and an MA in Politics from The New School for Social Research. Her research and teaching focus primarily on intersectionality, feminist politics, critical race theory, and interpretive methods in feminist theory.

Her dissertation, “(Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle: Intersectional Feminist Politics in the Era of the Women’s March”, focuses on the ways that feminist politics are animated by debates concerning the political demands of intersectionality. The dissertation offers critical interpretations of the work of Kimberlé Crenshaw to trace the development of intersectionality as an analytic with connections to pragmatic uses of civil rights law and juridical understandings of politics. She argues that Crenshaw’s theorization of intersectionality offers us an ambiguous understanding of intersectionality’s politics that leaves open multiple avenues of radical resistance and practices of solidarity. Her current research extends this argument, focusing on Crenshaw’s understanding of racial solidarity in relation to ambivalence. This work attends closely to Crenshaw’s understanding of sexual harassment as a political problem, the relationship between intersectionality and radical feminism, and how Crenshaw’s articulation of sexual marginalization might help us rethink feminist politics in the wake of the #metoo movement. Her research website is at rhiannonlove.squarespace.com.