Writing and Research
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​Furlong, Matthew. 2026. “Graduated Hospitality: Perceiving Scale Through Migrant Resettlement Infrastructure in Querétaro, Mexico.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
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Furlong, Matthew, and Iván F. Porraz Gómez. 2025. “Repensar la economización de la crisis de refugio y asilo de jóvenes centroamericanos/as desde zonas urbanas de las fronteras sur y norte de México.” In Las fronteras de México y Argentina: Diálogos para una producción de conocimientos latinoamericanos situados, edited by T. Porcaro, D. Camacho, and A. Benedetti, 293–321. Buenos Aires: Teseo Press.
Undergraduate Teaching
As a lecturer at UIC, my teaching has been featured by the university for courses that connect classroom learning with public institutions, oral history, social justice, and community-engaged research.
In addition to teaching courses in cultural anthropology and economic geography, I have developed several original undergraduate courses, including Affordable Housing in Crisis?, The Midwest as a Borderlands, and Confronting Food Insecurity in the Midwest.
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Multimedia Projects
While a post-doctoral fellow at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago, I coordinated the production of Human Rights in a New Key, a podcast published by the Pozen Center.
Coinciding with the rollout of a Human Rights Major at the U of C, the podcast brought undergrad student voices into conversation with diverse scholars, activists, and rights practitioners working on contemporary human rights issues.
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Journalistic Writing
I have published several journalistic articles on public discourses of political corruption, citizenship and victimhood in Mexico.
These pieces anticipate concerns that have become central to my academic work: public sphere political narratives and contested forms of state legitimacy.
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