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Education

Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 2014

Courses Taught

• ANTH 1010: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 3010/5010: Visual Anthropology
• ANTH 4560/5560: Ethnographic Methods and Field Research
• ANTH 4720/5720: History of Anthropological Thought

Research & Expertise

• Cultural Anthropology
• Ethnographic Methods
• Anthropology of Art and Literature
• Cities and Urbanism
• Visual and Media Anthropology
• South Asia
• Southeast Europe

Awards & Grants

Ohio University Research Committee Award

Humanities Research Fund, College of Arts & Sciences, Ohio University

Melikian Center Fellows Award, Arizona State University

Dr. Elaine H. Berkowitz Albanian Award

Ohio University-Gopikabai Sitaram Gawande College Partnership Grant

National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

IIE-Fulbright, Fulbright-Nehru Scholarship

Dr. Walter A. Eberstadt Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social Research

American Institute of Indian Studies, Advanced Language Fellowship

Selected Publications

Rosen, Matthew. 2019. “Between Conflicting Systems: An Ordinary Tragedy in Now-Capitalist Albania.” Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 28, no. 2 (September 2019): 1–22.

Rosen, Matthew. 2019. “Reading Nearby: Literary Ethnography in a Postsocialist City.” Anthropology and Humanism 44, no. 1 (June 2019): 70–87.

Rosen, Matthew. 2018. “Accidental Communities: Chance Operations in Urban Life and Field Research.” Ethnography 19, no. 3 (September 2018): 312–335.

Rosen, Matthew. 2015. “Ethnographies of Reading: Beyond Literacy and Books.” Anthropological Quarterly 88, no. 4 (November 2015): 1059–1084.