2020 - Dr. Matthew Hayes

Department of Sociology
BA, MA (Carleton) PhD (York)

Dr. Matthew Hayes is an internationally recognized scholar who specializes in global sociology, transnational gentrification, lifestyle mobilities, and cosmopolitanism. His latest research explores the lives of lifestyle migrants from high-income countries in the Global North to lower income countries in the Global South. He has conducted much of his research in Ecuador, where he studies how migrants from North America create new lives and identities through migration and how they navigate global inequalities of class and racialization. He has compiled this work in his book Gringolandia: Lifestyle Migration Under Late Capitalism, which leaders in the field of lifestyle migration described as a “timely and sorely needed intervention.”

Dr. Hayes is currently the Canada Research Chair in Global and International Studies. In the past year, he has co-organized the International Sociological Association’s mini-conference of leading sociological thinkers, was an invited scholar at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Lisbon, and helped organize a series of Global Studies Seminars on campus to highlight the work and research of STU faculty. He has published several well-cited peer-reviewed articles and book chapters—in English, Spanish, and French—and has forthcoming work that will be featured in Anthropologie et sociétés and a special issue of Urban Studies. Dr. Hayes joined the Department of Sociology in 2009 after earning a BA and an MA from Carleton University and a PhD from York University.