Professor of Anthropology
Office: Chambers 3257
Phone: 894-2613
Website: Professional Webpage

Matt Samson is a sociocultural anthropologist. His particular areas of interest are in indigenous culture and religion in Latin America, environment and sustainability issues, humanistic anthropology, and issues of social justice and human rights. Most of his academic research has been conducted in Guatemala and the wider culture region of Mesoamerica on issues of Maya identity and evangelical religion. He is also interested in communal identity and and social change in the southern United States and the Mexico-U.S. border region.