Faculty - [ Sociology Faculty - Dr. Matthew Hughey ]
Dr. Matthew Hughey
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology; University of Virginia
Email: mhughey@soc.msstate.edu
Website: http://mwh163.sociology.msstate.edu/
Dr. Matthew Hughey recently joined the faculty after completing his PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia. Trained in qualitative methodology (especially ethnographic techniques, in-depth interviewing, and content analysis), his research centers on race and ethnicity, cultural sociology, media studies, and symbolic interaction.
Dr. Hughey's work is published in top-ranked journals such as The Du Bois Review; Ethnic & Racial Studies; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography ; Social Problems; The Sociological Quarterly; and Symbolic Interaction. He is also the author of several award-winning and groundbreaking books: White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists and the Shared Meanings of Race (Stanford University Press, forthcoming in 2012); The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? (Oxford University Press, 2011); Black Greek-Letter Organizations, 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities(University Press of Mississippi, 2011), and 12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America (The New Press, 2010).
A frequent voice in national media (NPR, ABC News, Inside Higher Education) and a collaborator with scholarly luminaries such as Drs. Lani Guinier, Charles Ogletree, and Theda Skocpol, Dr. Hughey is a rising figure in the (inter)national conversation about racial identity, racism, and racial inequality.
