Matthew Heinrichs

Graduate Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant

Research Interests

Race, Gender, Class; Sociology of Emotions; Social Movements; Global Middle East and North Africa; Sociology of Indigenous People and Native Nations; Transnational Sociology

Education

MA in Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden (Dec 2020)

BA in French and International Studies, Iowa State University (May 2018)

BA in Spanish, Iowa State University (May 2018)

Awards and Honors

FLAS Fellow (Arabic), Summer 2024, AY 2025-26

Illinois Distinguished Fellowship (3 years), 2023

Additional Campus Affiliations

Minor in Queer Studies - Department of Gender and Women's Studies

Recent Publications

Stefan Vogler, Matthew Heinrichs (2026) "Legal Legibility: Gender and Sexual Classifications in the Law." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 22.

"Feeling Ambivalence: Lebanese Youth and the 2019 Uprising" (2026) Middle East Law and Governance 18(2): 160-175.