  MATTHEW FRY Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociocultural Anthropology PhD, Texas (Geography) 314-935-5252 mfry@WUSTL.EDU |
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| MATTHEW FRY Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociocultural Anthropology PhD, Texas (Geography) 314-935-5252 mfry@WUSTL.EDU |
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My research focuses on human-environment interactions in Latin America. As a geographer, I examine ‘the why of the where’. Culture, politics, landscapes, and environmental change are of particular interest. I use a multi-scaled approach to analyze the linkages between local level transformations and broader structural influences. My research methods include: household surveys, informal and group interviews, archival research, biophysical measurements, GPS mapping, and GIS analysis. I currently do research in Mexico, but have also mapped Achuar hunting trails in the Ecuadorian Amazon and analyzed Guaraní decision making in southeastern Bolivia.
My most recent research in the highlands of Veracruz, Mexico investigates how the booming demand for common urban building materials influences rural land use and livelihood strategies, local geographies, and cultural landscapes. In addition to continuing my research in Mexico, in 2009, I will begin working on a collaborative project in tropical montane forest regions of the Peruvian Andes.
For more information see the overview of the department's research in sociocultural anthropology.
Rich Nations/Poor Nations: Commodities and Environmental Change, Culture and Environment, Political Ecology
Fry, M.
2008. Mexico’s Concrete Block Landscape: A Modern Legacy in the Vernacular. Journal of Latin American Geographers 72(2): 35-58.
2008. Concrete-Block Farmers in Mexico. Geographical Review 98(1): 123-132.
In Press. Tepetzil y la Producción de Block en la Región Montañosa del Centro de Veracruz. In K.F. Clark, G.A. Salas Piza, and R. Cubillas Estrada (eds.), Geología Económica de México, 2ª Edición. Hermosillo, Sonora, México: Servicio Geológico Mexicano.
