Matt Wray

Matt Wray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Temple University, where he is the chair of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Health Track. Prior to Temple, Wray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University. Wray earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MA and PhD from University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Wray is the author of Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (Duke, 2006); and the editor of Cultural Sociology: An Introductory Reader (WW Norton 2013); The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (Duke, 2001); Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life (New York University Press, 1998); and White Trash: Race and Class in America (Routledge, 1997).

Wray is currently at work on a book length study of the causes and consequences of high rates of suicide in the American West, entitled Death in Vegas.