Matt Wray
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Matt Wray graduated from University of California, Berkeley's doctoral program in Ethnic Studies in 2000 and spent the following academic year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. There he completed research for his forthcoming book based on his dissertation, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (Duke University Press, 2006). Wray writes about cultural and social theory and teaches courses in race and ethnic relations. He is a former editor of the internet journal, Bad Subjects (eserver.org/bs) and co-editor of the Bad Subjects Anthology from NYU Press. He also co-edited White Trash: Race and Class in America (Routledge, 1997), a collection of essays dealing with representations and experiences of poor rural whites in the U.S, and The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (Duke University Press, 2001), an anthology based on the 1997 Berkeley conference he co-organized. Wray is currently researching and mapping the sociological dimensions of suicide in Las Vegas and is on leave 2006-2008 as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University. |
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