Matthew Wolfe, National Fellow, is a sociologist and journalist based in New York City. In 2023, he received his doctorate from New York University, where he researched the social patterning of and societal reaction to missing persons in the United States. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, the Atlantic, National Geographic, the New Republic, the Oxford American, and elsewhere. His scholarship has appeared in Theory and Society and Social Research.
Wolfe is currently writing a narrative non-fiction book for Viking Press about the Earth Liberation Front, eco-sabotage, and radical environmentalism in the context of the current climate crisis.
Selected Work
- The Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground: A story for the New York Times Magazine about the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front, a group of environmental activists based in the Pacific Northwest.
- Without a Trace: A piece for Harper’s Magazine about an Afghan man searching across three countries for his younger brother who disappeared while trying to emigrate to Europe
- The Last Unknown Man: A story for the New Republic about the decade-long effort to identify a retrograde amnesiac discovered naked and unconscious behind a Burger King restaurant in Georgia.