Matthew Hayes

Dr. Matthew Hayes joined the Department of Sociology in 2009 after earning a BA and an MA from Carleton University and a PhD from York University. He has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters in highly respected, international venues. He has published in three languages, English, French, and Spanish, and his research networks have been aided by his ability to speak and work in two others, Italian and Portuguese. He is currently the Canada Research Chair in Global and Transnational Studies. He specializes in global sociology, transnational gentrification, lifestyle mobilities, and cosmopolitanism. His latest research explores the lives of lifestyle migrants from high-income countries in the Global North to lower-income countries in the Global South.