Matthew Hughey Explained

Matthew Hughey
Birth Date:1 August 1976
Nationality:American
Fields:Sociology
Workplaces:University of Connecticut
Education:University of North Carolina at Greensboro (B.A., 1999)
Ohio University (M.Ed., 2002)
University of Virginia (Ph.D., 2009)
Thesis Title:White guise: the common trajectory of the white antiracist & racist movement
Thesis Url:https://books.google.com/books/about/White_Guise.html?id=h_ZwQwAACAAJ
Thesis Year:2009
Doctoral Advisor:Milton Vickerman
Known For:Sociology of race
Awards:2014 Distinguished Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
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Matthew Windust Hughey is an American sociologist known for his work on race and racism.[1] [2] [3] He is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, where he is also an adjunct faculty member in the Africana Studies Institute; American Studies Program; Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, & Policy; Sustainable Global Cities Initiative, and; graduate certificate program in Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, & Politics.[4] His work has included studying whiteness,[5] race and media,[6] race and politics,[7] [8] racism and racial assumptions within genetic and genomic science,[9] and racism and racial identity in white and black American fraternities and sororities.[10] [11] [12]

He first came to national attention for his book White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race, originally published in 2012.

Early life

Hughey was born in Los Angeles, California. He was raised in Asheville, North Carolina. He received his elementary and middle education through The Calvert School curriculum of Baltimore, Maryland before attending Asheville High School. After briefly living in Kingston, Jamaica, Hughey went on to pursue an undergrad degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While in college he became a member of the historically black Greek-letter organization, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. He graduated in 1999 as a sociology major and as class president.[13] Hughey proceeded to earn a Master of Education degree in cultural studies from Ohio University in 2002. He completed his doctorate in sociology at the University of Virginia in 2009. While earning his PhD, Hughey was a research fellow for the Center for the Study of Local Knowledge in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies and later worked as an instructor in the Department of Sociology, Program of Media Studies, and Program of African American Studies.[14]

Career honors

Hughey is recognized as a sociologist of race and racism drawing from several intellectual traditions, notably cultural and critical theory. He has held invited, honorary, and competitive scholarly positions at several institutions globally: School of Law at the University of Kent (Canterbury, England), Department of Sociology at Trinity College-Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom), the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University (New York City, USA), and the postgraduate school at University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa). He is currently affiliate faculty in Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University (Port Elizabeth, South Africa), the Knowledge, Power, and Politics Research Cluster at University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England), and the Research Group on Gender, Identity, and Diversity at University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). Hughey's research, university teaching, and mentoring has also received numerous commendations:

Selected bibliography

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Matthew Hughey, BA '99 . UNCG Sociology . 2018-01-15.
  2. Web site: Beyond a 'colorblind' America, a new ideal . Jonsson . Patrik . 2016-08-03 . Christian Science Monitor . 2018-01-15.
  3. News: Why MLK, Jr.'s Words And Actions Are Relevant Today . Coffey . Denise . 2017-01-25 . Courant Community . 2018-01-15 . en-US.
  4. Web site: Matthew Hughey . Department of Sociology . en-US . 2018-01-15.
  5. Web site: White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race Matthew W. Hughey. Press. Stanford University. www.sup.org. en. 2018-01-24.
  6. Book: Hughey, Matthew. The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption. Temple University Press. 2014. 978-1-43991-000-9.
  7. Web site: The Wrongs of the Right Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama Books - NYU Press NYU Press. nyupress.org. en. 2018-01-24.
  8. Book: The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America?. 2011-02-01. Oxford University Press. 9780199735204. Series in Political Psychology. Oxford, New York.
  9. Hughey. Matthew. Byrd. W. Carson. September 2015. Race, Racial Inequality, and Biological Determinism in the Genetic and Genomic Era. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 661. 8–258. 10.1177/0002716215591476. 147374109 . free.
  10. Web site: Segregated sororities not limited to Alabama, experts say . Grasgreen . Allie . 2013-09-19 . Inside Higher Ed . 2018-01-15.
  11. Web site: The Ugly, Racist, Deadly History of Sigma Alpha Epsilon . New . Jake . 2015-03-13 . Slate . en-US . 2018-01-15.
  12. Book: Black Greek-Letter Organizations, 2.0. Hughey. Matthew. Parks. Gregory. University Press of Mississippi. 2011. 978-1604739213.
  13. Web site: Website of Matthew W. Hughey. Hughey. Matthew. January 24, 2018. Biography - Matthew W. Hughey. http://www.matthewhughey.com/Website/BIOGRAPHY.html. January 24, 2018. January 24, 2018.
  14. Web site: Website of Matthew W. Hughey - Biography. Hughey. Matthew. January 24, 2018. Matthew Hughey Website. http://www.matthewhughey.com/Website/BIOGRAPHY.html. January 24, 2018. January 24, 2018.
  15. Web site: 2010 PASS Awards. National Council on Crime and Delinquency. January 25, 2018. January 25, 2018.
  16. Web site: White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race Matthew W. Hughey. Press. Stanford University. www.sup.org. en. 2018-01-25.
  17. Web site: White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race Matthew W. Hughey. Press. Stanford University. www.sup.org. en. 2018-01-25.
  18. News: Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Past Award Recipients. 2011-03-08. American Sociological Association. 2018-01-25. en.
  19. Web site: Stanford University Press Awards. Webmaster. www.sup.org. en. 2018-01-25.
  20. Web site: Mentor Award-Previous Winners - Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. sites.google.com. 2018-01-25.
  21. Web site: Matthew W. Hughey: The White Savior Film. www.temple.edu. 2018-01-25.
  22. Web site: Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. clas.uconn.edu. 2018-01-25.

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