Matthew W. Hughey

Short Biography

Matthew W. Hughey, Ph.D. is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia. In the fall of 2009 he begins work as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Mississippi State University. His research and teaching interests center on: (i) the “practice” of race or the combination of structural and dramaturgical processes by which people socially construct racial identity, make meaning of race, and negotiate that meaning with others within the context of objective social relations of power and inequality; (ii) the organization and cultural logic of raced associational activities (Black Fraternities and Sororities, the Black Panther Party, and White Identity groups), and; (iii) the representation of race in various mediated formats (from television and film to newsprint and internet).