Matthew Furlong
Visiting Lecturer
Anthropology, Sociocultural
Pronouns: He/Him
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Building & Room:
BSB 3164
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About
Matthew Furlong is a Lecturer in Anthropology and the Honors College at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research and teaching engage questions of urban life, political economy, and migration, with a particular focus on public housing and infrastructure in Mexico and the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in cities such as Tijuana and Querétaro, his work explores how urban infrastructures shape people’s experiences of housing, debt, governance, and mobility. His work has appeared in journals such as Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, as well as in Spanish in an edited volume on Latin American borderlands published by Teseo Press (Buenos Aires). Prior to joining UIC in 2024, he was a postdoctoral fellow and instructor at the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago. At UIC, he has taught courses on Economic Geography, Affordable Housing, and The Midwest as a Borderlands, and regularly integrates community-engaged research, oral history, and digital mapping into his undergraduate teaching.
Education
PhD in Anthropology from University of Chicago
MA in Anthropology from University of Chicago
BA in English, Philosophy, and Sociology from William College