Matthew Gutmann

Matthew Gutmann holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Berkeley and has undertaken much of his ethnographic research in Mexico, focusing on issues related to studies of men and masculinities, politics, and the military. His research has also focused on healthcare, which earned him the Eileen Basker Memorial Award for the best scholarly study on gender and health in 2008. He is currently a professor emeritus of Anthropology and an associate professor at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. He has also been a visiting professor in China, where he is affiliated with Nanjing University and the Shanghai Theater Academy, in France, Mexico, Spain and Thailand. His books include Ser hombre de verdad en la Ciudad de México: a macho ni mandilón (Colegio de México, 2000), El romance de la democracia: rebeldía sumisa en el México contemporáneo (Fondo de Cultura, 2010) and Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short (Basic Books, 2019). The latter is an exhaustive investigation of masculinity, in which the author unearths its cultural character and advocates the need to call it into question. He is also co-editor of the Global Square book series published by the University of California Press.