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Marco Dehnert is a communication scholar whose work sits at the provocative intersection of human-machine communication, sexuality studies, and critical theory. Working across these interconnected domains, Dehnert has emerged as a distinctive voice interrogating how humans relate to — and are shaped by — increasingly sophisticated technologies, while simultaneously centering marginalized communities often overlooked in mainstream academic discourse. His most cited work (28 citations) offers a groundbreaking qualitative critique of allonormative representations of asexual and aromantic individuals, filling a significant gap in communication and rhetorical scholarship by centering ace and aro voices from communities like Reddit and AVEN. Equally influential is his comparative literature review on sex robots and human-machine sexualities (19 citations), which bridges Human-Machine Communication theory with sexuality studies in rarely attempted ways. His essay on human-robot relationships and personhood (14 citations) ventures boldly into legal and philosophical territory, challenging foundational assumptions about ownership and technological objects. Dehnert's additional contributions on critical posthumanism and disability justice demonstrate a scholar committed to equity-centered frameworks, ensuring that social robotics discourse accounts for bodies and identities that dominant narratives frequently ignore. His growing citation record marks him as an emerging, boundary-pushing voice in communication studies.