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Dr Matthias vom Hau- Lewis-Gluckman Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Matthias vom Hau
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Matthias vom Hau is a Lewis-Gluckman Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute. He has a PhD (2007) and MA (2001) from Brown University and a BA equivalent from Humboldt University Berlin (1998). A comparative-historical sociologist by training, he has published on nationalism and state formation in Latin America, on the historical roots of social and economic development in the region, and on comparative-historical methods. He is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled Contested Inclusion: Transformations of Nationalism in Mexico, Argentina, and Peru. His next projects will explore the nexus between nationalism and health policy and the role of social movements in poverty reduction. |
| Key activities at BWPI | Research on nationalism and health policy in Latin America; coordination of Brooks World Poverty Research Seminar |
| Current research areas | Nationalism and ethnicity, comparative development, education, health politics, social movements, Latin America |
| Journal articles | “Unfinished Imagined Communities: States, Social Movements, and Nationalism in Latin America,” Theory and Society 35 (April 2006), pp. 193-212. (with José Itzigsohn) “Colonialism and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and British Colonies,” American Journal of Sociology 111: 5 (March 2006), pp. 1412-1462. (with Matthew Lange and James Mahoney) “Explaining the Great Reversal in Spanish America: Fuzzy-Set Analysis versus Regression Analysis,” Sociological Methods and Research 33: 4 (May 2005), pp. 539-573. (with Aaron Katz and James Mahoney)
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