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Matthew Wolf-Meyer

@mw-m.bsky.social
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disability & the American family - design & the biology of everyday life - theory for the world to come - anthropologist, americanist, polemicist -(he/him)

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We talk about how the collection came into being, the multiple spreadsheets that guided our editorial process, and provide an overview of the central argument of the book. @rutgersupress.bsky.social
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Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer et al eds., "Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century" (Rutgers UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I was interviewed with @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka about our recent volume, “Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century” for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. It’s a fun conversation thanks to Amisah Bakuri! Check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/mapping-medi...
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Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer et al eds., "Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century" (Rutgers UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“Sleep and Its Meanings” is available #openaccess from @mitpress.bsky.social — it’s a diverse collection of emergent social studies of sleep. Check it out! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Sleep and Its Meanings: Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies
A wide-ranging collection exploring the many meanings of sleep, within the context of the humanities and social sciences.Sleep has been an object of specia
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We tried very hard to make sure that contributors came from different Ph.D. programs, work in different parts of the world, and have different methodological approaches. As a collection, it shows the diversity of what medical anthropology is and can be. I'm excited for people to engage with it!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
@eyatesd.bsky.social, Chris Sargent, Michele Friedner, @ayowahlberg.bsky.social, Todd Meyers, @harrissolomon.bsky.social, Jocelyn Lim Chua, Duana Fullwiley, Gideon Lasco, Stefan Ecks, Michelle Pentecost, Denielle Elliott, T.S. Harvey, Paul Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Prince, and Mara Buchbinder
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It's also full of some of my favorite medical anthropologists working today, including
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It's too late to adopt for this semester, but we hope that you'll consider using it in the future in your courses. The chapters are short and all lead with a rich ethnographic or archival example that authors use to motivate understanding key concerns in medical anthropology.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We designed it for undergrads and interested grad students and advanced scholars who want to get into medical anthropology and might not know where to begin. It offers an overview of the field and a set of chapters from anthropologists all over the world writing about key ideas in the field.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We're about a month away from the official release of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century, which was an effort made better by so many friends being involved, esp. @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka, who did so much work to make this volume from @rutgersupress.bsky.social happen.
Matthew Wolf-Meyer (a bald, middle aged white guy with glasses) holds aloft a copy of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century. He's standing in front of a window with blue skies behind him.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We're so excited to have this out in the world! And so grateful to the contributors, peer reviewers, endorsers, and staff at @rutgersupress.bsky.social for helping it come into being! May it work its way onto many syllabuses and bookshelves...
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm looking forward to 4S and another visit to Toronto! The 4S meetings are definitely my favorite "big" conference (and they aren't even that big), with lots of variety in content and opportunities to meet new people.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This happens tomorrow! I hope you can join us (it's free and open to the public): us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SDS Author Talks: Cassandra Hartblay . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join Cassandra Hartblay, author of new book ACCESS VERNACULARS (Cornell University Press), with discussants Raquel Velho and Xenia Cherkaev, for a discussion of a global perspective on critical access...
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I'm so pleased to share the cover of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century. I've been working on this for the past few years with @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka for @rutgersupress.bsky.social, and it will finally be available in April 2026! Read more: bit.ly/46zEzOF
The cover of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century. It features black, bold text that runs the course of the cover from top to bottom. Behind the text is a red, veiny image. Maybe it's a bent knee? Maybe it's some other joint? It's purposefully obscure and fleshy.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In a new series at PB, Systems & Futures section editor Matthew Wolf-Meyer (@mw-m.bsky.social) introduces “No Future”: A Lexicon. Throughout the week, contributors will explore the question: Can we reject the future?
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“No Future”: A Lexicon
If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Anxiety about the future is nothing new. As @mw-m.bsky.social writes, “Rejecting future’s seeming inevitability has defined thought and practice around the world, likely for the whole of human history.” Our new series “No Future”: A Lexicon, begins today:
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“No Future”: A Lexicon
If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?
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Isaac Yuen @ekostories.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"Offering distance and difference in vantage, the post-post-apocalyptic allows the imaginary lens to recenter its focus on a freed moment in time, along with its sovereign, mutable future.” A new essay up at @publicbooks.bsky.social for a new series edited by @mw-m.bsky.social: shorturl.at/WdMDg
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“No Future” Lexicon: The Post-Post-Apocalyptic - Public Books
But what lies beyond the end of the world? Casting off the trappings accreted by the post-apocalyptic genre emerge stories of the post-post-apocalyptic.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This piece in New City is an abbreviated version of the introduction of Proposals for a Caring Economy--it'll give you a sense of the tone and content of the book, which I hope is welcoming and provoking for readers from all sorts of backgrounds: nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
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Visions of a Caring Economy
A new book explores what it would look like to build an economy that places care and caregiving work at the forefront.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It's true! After a few years of work and waiting, this little book is here--suitable for use in intro anth and sociology classes, and a remedy for evidence-free policy proposals (I've been telling people it's like reading the @nytimes.com editorial page, but with actual evidence!).
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Yesterday, I received a rejection on an article revision, which relied entirely on a peer review provided by a very cranky and mean Reviewer #2. Today, I wrote the editors of that journal an email encouraging them to exercise their editorial power and not send along useless and mean peer reviews.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I agree with all of what @rcolesworthy.bsky.social says here--and am also bad at it. I--probably like a lot of academic authors--am at war with myself about being more of a self-promoter, but I tend to blame it on my introversion rather than self-promotion squeamishness. Maybe they're the same?
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I have a new piece in Lateral--on subjunctive grief. It started years ago when I was working on Unraveling and then languished during the early pandemic. But now it is here, thanks to generous peer reviewers and the editors at Lateral: doi.org/10.25158/L14...
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer, "Subjunctive Grief: Affective Methodologies for Articulating Futures" - Lateral
Grief is typically portrayed as an individual experience that is a response to loss and provides the basis for personal growth; grief is something to work through, and, ideally, to benefit from, and r...
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Contributions from @audretaughtme.bsky.social, David Hughes, Stephanie Delise Jones & Damien Sojoyner, @ratnagiri77.bsky.social, Katy Overstreet, Michelle Parsons, Adair Rounthwaite, & @eyatesd.bsky.social. On: epidemiology, carbon-reduction, carcerality, sustainable ag, art access, open borders!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It's (nearly) officially here: Proposals for a Caring Economy. It's full of thoughtful and thought-provoking pieces that take centering care as the basis of social organization, from everyday institutions to geopolitical relations. Thanks @uminnpress.bsky.social!
The image includes two copies of the book Proposals for a Caring Economy, one resting atop the other, askance in its orientation. The cover is crimson, with the text in white.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
On May 30-31, the Society for Disability Studies is hosting two author-focused events with @drrobertchapman.bsky.social, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp (and diverse panels of commentators). Registration is open and free. www.patreon.com/posts/regist...
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Registration is Open for May Events | Society for Disability Studies
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
If you have a book proposal that might be right for them and I might be the right person to help you with it, get in contact: as an editor-at-large, I work with authors on developing their proposals, identifying the right editor to send it to, and provide support during the revision process.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
If you need a dose of sincerity from me, this video has it! It's such an honor and pleasure to work with @uminnpress.bsky.social -- a press I idolized as a grad student (the THL series! posthumanities! theory out of bounds!) and have found so much support through as an author. Excelsior!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A new issue of Catalyst is out, including a piece from me on #bioethics and #disability. It draws on memoirs from #autistic authors and fleshes out a cybernetic theory of disability to argue against for more attention to atypical forms of communication. It's argumentative! doi.org/10.28968/cft...
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Idiosyncratic and Non-Unitary: Disability Memoirs and Antinormative Bioethics | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
You can request an exam copy here: www.upress.umn.edu/request-exam... (But it won't be out until late May/early June--still plenty of time to prepare to use it in the fall)
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Request Exam Copy - University of Minnesota Press
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It's from @uminnpress.bsky.social and features @audretaughtme.bsky.social, David McDermott Hughes, Stephanie Delise Jones, @ratnagiri77.bsky.social, Katy Overstreet, Michelle Parsons, Adair Rounthwaite, Damien M. Sojoyner and @eyatesd.bsky.social. Recommend it to your friends and family!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Proposals for a Caring Economy" would make a great inclusion in an #anthropology or #sociology class where you're trying to get students to think about social priorities and their consequences. It covers farmers, artists, women's and homeless shelters, immigration, energy transitions, and more!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Proposals for a Caring Economy" comes out this spring. I often hope that a book will become irrelevant by the time it's published. Sadly, this little book is more relevant than ever. It offers a set of ethnographically-driven policy recommendations, suitable for any reader. bit.ly/4iS1tUS
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Proposals for a Caring Economy
Offers much-needed care models beyond capitalist constraints For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justificati...
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hey! I had a conversation with two fellow #microbial travelers-- Amber Benezra and Gloria Chan-Sook Kim--about our recent (and very different) forays into microbial worlds. Maybe you'll enjoy listening to it? It includes a lot of shit talk (for better and worse!) and feeling disgusted!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I wrote a piece for #anthropology news about middle theories of care as a way to advocate for diverse needs—maybe you’ll enjoy it? www.anthropology-news.org/articles/for...
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Forget Care - Anthropology News
Peter sits on a chaise lounge with a clear vessel full of a shake he’s about to drink. He holds it up to show its brownish-red color and thick
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Oh no! I have to do a ton of work on it… but, yes!, I’m glad you’re digging into it!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I have a chapter about the origins of the “fussy eater” in the book I’m working on right now—they’ve been with us for a very long time!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Thanks for the plug! I'd be happy to do it. You're probably thinking of this: matthewwolfmeyer.com/2019/05/22/e...
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Everything I Needed to Unlearn I Learned from Sid Meier’s Civilization
I’ve been playing Sid Meier’s Civilization my whole video-game-playing life. If you don’t know it, it’s a slow strategy game that models the origins of “civilization&#…
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The deadline for these jobs is quickly approaching (Jan 10)! #design #equity #technology
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Algren's "Man with the Golden Arm"?
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Is the aim to give them a first-person account of using? Or some lit that's important for its role in drug history? Or both? I drift toward Philip K. Dick and Can-D (in "3 Stigmata") for doing both; but maybe Ken Kesey? Or Carlos Castaneda? (I wonder what contemporary students would make of them)
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
If you think my recent “American Disgust” might fit (broadly conceived), I’d be happy to do it. It has a long section on planetary health as an outgrowth of settler colonial human-environment thinking and tries to put environmental stewardship and self-care discourses into dialogue
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
My pleasure! If you/we can get more applicants to read it, that would be amazing
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I wrote this years ago, which has a section on preparing personal statements (that I still think is true): matthewwolfmeyer.com/2012/08/12/s...
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So You’re Applying to Graduate School (in Anthropology)
Applying to graduate school can seem daunting, but if you take it step by step it doesn’t need to be so. But this means starting the process early — like a year before you plan on apply…
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
You can also pay Amazon 99 cents to own a kindle copy of "How to Publish an Academic Article in 6 Steps," if that's something that you're into: a.co/d/iE6s5hM
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How to Publish an Academic Article in 6 Steps
How to Publish an Academic Article in 6 Steps - Kindle edition by Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading How to Publish an Academic Article in 6 Steps.
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
For over a decade, I've been blogging about academic professionalization and running a seminar for graduate students that includes a lot about writing article manuscripts. You can now download "How to Publish an Academic Article in 6 Steps" as a free eBook here (I hope): bit.ly/3D9lnLG
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How to Write an Academic Article in 6 Steps.epub
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My department, Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer, is hiring two positions in Design, Innovation & Society—one tenure track (equitable design) and one teaching track (open area). It’s a very supportive department with excellent students. Please share! careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
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Teaching Track Position: Design and Society
The Department of Science & Technology Studies (STS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) seeks a teaching-track Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, or Professor of Practice in the area of design and soci...
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thanks Dana—I hope it’s a fun (?) read!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Now that the #anthropology feed is more robust, I’m passing along this notice of the @uminnpress.bsky.social #AAA2024 sale:
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Have you considered the Hoban Gambit? youtu.be/oMnjkGv3myg?...
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Bread and Jam for Francis | Read-Along | 1973 Scholastic Record and Book
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
After a few years of work, a small edited volume called Proposals for a Caring Economy comes out this spring: It has the vibes of being at a workshop of ideas and pushes thinking about care to address energy transitions, art exhibits, agriculture, etc. And me articulating a temporal labor theory!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thanks Clara—I hope you enjoy it!
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