Matthew (Matt) Rosen, Ph.D.

Matthew Rosen is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the social dimensions of reading, migration, and urban life. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research and has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Albania, India, and the United States.

Rosen is the author of Tirana Modern: Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe (Vanderbilt University Press, 2022) and the editor of The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). His other published work has appeared in books and journals including Anthropological Quarterly, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Anthropology and Humanism, Ethnography, and Urbanities. 

At Ohio University, Rosen teaches courses in cultural anthropology, ethnographic methods, media anthropology, visual anthropology, and anthropological theory. His current research investigates friendship, migration, and everyday life in contemporary Tirana, Albania.