Matthias vom Hau is a Lewis-Gluckman Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute. He has a PhD (2007) and MA (2001) from Brown University and a BA equivalent from Humboldt University Berlin (1998).

A comparative-historical sociologist by training, he has published on nationalism and state formation in Latin America, on the historical roots of social and economic development in the region, and on comparative-historical methods. He is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled Contested Inclusion: Transformations of Nationalism in Mexico, Argentina, and Peru.

His next projects will explore the nexus between nationalism and health policy and the role of social movements in poverty reduction.