Brian A. Hoey

Brian A. Hoey is an awarding winning scholar who has received both the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship, for research conducted in Indonesia, as well as a prominent grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Workplace, Workforce, and Working Families program for his fieldwork conducted in the Midwestern United States. Now a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, Hoey received his undergraduate degree in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic and earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. His research explores the social, cultural, and personal impacts of economic restructuring through the lens of community development and, in particular, the phenomenon of lifestyle migration. In addition to a continuing interest in career change, identity, and the moral meanings of work, Hoey has a longstanding interest in the effects of both natural and built environments on human health. His interest in environmental health has led to collaborative ethnographic work on the psychosocial impact of toxic contamination. Hoey has published widely on these subjects in academic journals and book chapters in addition to the two ethnographic books listed here.