Matthew Alemu completed his B.S. in Accounting at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans in 2006. Afterward, he received his Master in Public Policy from the University of Michigan in 2009. Before returning to the University of Michigan in Fall 2012, Matthew worked as a Policy Analyst at the Government Accountability Office in Washington D.C. Matthew’s research interest focuses on disadvantaged black males and how they construct meaning in light of various social obstacles and stigmas.
Research Interests
Race, culture & knowledge, public policy, black men
TEACHING Interests
Introduction to Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Culture and Special Topics related to: Black Men, Qualitative Methods, among others.
teaching experience
- Lead Instructor: Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods.
- Graduate Student Instructor: Social Inequality, Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Calculus.
- Teaching Consultant: University Teaching Consultant for Graduate Student Instructors, Department Course Training for Graduate Student Instructors.
- See Curriculum Vitae for detailed teaching experience and training
dissertation title
Better Than My Father: An Exploration of the Influence of Absent Fatherhood on the Minds and Lives of Disadvantaged Black Men
dissertation committee
Alford Young, Jr. (Co-chair); Sandra K. Danziger (Co-Chair); Fatma Muge Gocek (Sociology); Alexandra K Murphy (Sociology).
As artisans of a new breed we must plant seeds for trees whose leaves we’ll never feed, whose shade we’ll never graze. We must find our solace in the rain.
Matthew Alemu
