Matthew Gutmann
Vice President for International Affairs; Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Professor of Anthropology:
Office of International Affairs
Phone: 401/863-7732
gutmann@brown.edu
Matthew Gutmann studies democracy and social change; poverty, inequality, and development; health and gender; ethnicity and race; and militarization in the Americas.
Biography
Matthew Gutmann has a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (1995) and an M.P.H. (1997), both from the University of California Berkeley. He is Vice President for International Affairs, Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Professor of Anthropology. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social Pacífico Sur (Oaxaca, Mexico).
Interests
Matthew Gutmann studies democracy and social change; poverty, inequality, and development; health and gender; ethnicity and race; and militarization in the Americas.
In Mexico City, he has done research on two major issues: one is changing male identities and practices with respect to fathering, sexuality, housework, alcohol, violence, and the cultural history of machismo (The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City, California 1996, 2006). And, the second research topic was popular politics as seen through participation in and abstention from elections, responses from "below" to the North American Free Trade Agreement and expressions of Mexican nationalism, as well as romantic notions of agency, resistance, and democracy (The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico, California 2002). He also has done research in Oaxaca, Mexico, regarding men's reproductive health and sexuality through ethnographic fieldwork in two vasectomy clinics, a government AIDS clinic, and among indigenous midwives, doctors, and healers (Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico, California 2007).
Most of Gutmann's ethnographic research has been conducted in Mexico. He has also conducted collaborative research on/with UN Peacekeepers in Haiti and Lebanon. His current research projects include: (1) The Challenge of Internationalism; (2) Military Service and Democratic Citizenship in the Americas; (3) Inequality, Gender, and Health Care in the Americas; and (4) Area Studies: Anachronistic or Avant-Garde? He has a book written with Catherine Lutz in press with the University of California Press on the lives of six antiwar Iraq veterans, Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out Against the War.
Degrees
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1995
Awards
2008: Eileen Basker Memorial Prize (for Fixing Men)
2007-08: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
2007: Fulbright-García Robles Scholar (Mexico)
2006-11: Fulbright Senior Specialist
2005: Visiting Professor, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao,Spain (May)
2004: Visiting Professor, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et
Sociales, Université de Lille I, France (January)
2001-07: Visiting Professor, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios
Superiores en Antropología Social–Istmo (Oaxaca, Mexico)
2001-02: Visiting Professor, Centro Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia Oaxaca (Mexico)
2001-02: National Endowment for the Humanities University Professor
Fellowship
Affiliations
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Association
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología
Social – Unidad Istmo (Oaxaca, México)
Doctorado Europeo en "Migraciones y Conflictos en la Sociedad Global"
Editorial Boards: Critique of Anthropology, Identities, International
Journal of Men's Health, Maguaré, Men and Masculinities
Especialización en Estudios de la Mujer, Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana–Xochimilco (Mexico)
Latin American Studies Association
New England Council of Latin American Studies
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Medical Anthropology
Southern New England Consortium on Race and Ethnicity
Funded Research
2007-08
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship: "Iraq Veterans in Dissent, Masculine Loyalties in Contention: Epiphanies among the Troops"
2007
Fulbright-García Robles Scholar: "Military Service, Masculinity, and Democratic Citizenship in Mexico"
2006-08
Compton Foundation, co-PI: "Improving Cultural Awareness in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations"
2004
Faculty Award, Craig M. Cogut Fund for Research on Latin America (Brown): "Traditional Contraceptive Options for Men in Oaxaca, Mexico"
2003
Small grant, Population Studies and Training Center (Brown): "The Cultural History of Male Contraception"
2002-07
Faculty Research Fund (Brown; six times)
2001-02
National Endowment for the Humanities University Faculty Fellowship: "Fixing Men: Negotiating Men's Reproductive Health and Sexuality in Oaxaca City, Mexico"
2001
Faculty Research Initiative Grant, Watson Institute for International Studies (Brown): "Male Friendship and Homosociality in Latin America"
1999-2002
Salomon Faculty Research Award (Brown; three times)
1999-2002
University-funded small grants program (Brown; three times)
1999
Faculty Research Award, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (Brown): "Blackwell Reader on the Anthropology of the Americas"
1996-97
National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Training Grant, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Prevention Research Center/School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
1995-96
Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellowship, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
1993-95
National Institute of Mental Health National Research Service Award
1992-93
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Training Grant
1992-93
Wenner-Gren Predissertation Grant
1992-93
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
1992
UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant
1992
Institute for Intercultural Studies Grant
Curriculum Vitae
