Matthew Wolfe is a sociologist who recently received his PhD from New York University. His research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study the social patterning of and societal reaction to missing persons in contemporary and historical contexts. In a second project, he is investigating the radical environmental movement and its repression in the context of the current climate crisis. 
 
He is currently a National Fellow at New America and conducting an ethnography of a large metropolitan police department under a postdoctoral grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In Fall 2024, he will be starting a postdoctoral fellowship at New York Univesity.