Isaac Dery is interested in exploring and developing analytical frameworks that may enable us to question and challenge the ways gendered subjectivities tend to be normalized and reproduced in everyday conversations. Over the years, his thinking and scholarship have been influenced by a vision of research that seeks to transform, humanise, and emancipate African knowledge systems through empirically driven research. His scholarship focuses on community-engaged research in the field of Gender and African Studies with a specific interest in masculinities; violence (broadly conceived); African feminisms; sexualities and the intersections of these in contributing to the larger decolonial project in contemporary African societies.