Matthew Lorenzen

Matthew Lorenzen is a visiting professor at the Department of Sociology of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, campus Iztapalapa, in Mexico City. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. From 2018 to 2023, he was a researcher at the Institute of Geography of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Unidad Oaxaca. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California's Sol Price School of Public Policy. His research centers on the forest transition and migration in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca; rural gentrification and touristification in central Mexico; and mixed migrations to and through Mexico.