{"id":1291,"date":"2010-06-28T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T12:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?page_id=1291"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:28","slug":"dr-matthew-kurtz","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/dr-matthew-kurtz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Matthew Kurtz"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Academic Research and Student Matters:<a href=\"mailto:kurtzm@uwalumni.com\">kurtzm@uwalumni.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professional Consulting: <a href=\"mailto:Regi.consulting@gmail.com\">Regi.consulting@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Matthew Kurtz is a socio-economic research consultant. He obtained a bachelor\u2019s in mathematics (summa cum laude) in 1986, a master\u2019s in geography in 1990, then started teaching in the History and Geography Department at University of Alaska Anchorage. His doctoral studies in geography took him to Lexington, Kentucky. He returned to Anchorage with two competitive grants from the National Science Foundation to conduct his research on the birth of Alaska\u2019s economic development institutions. The study included fieldwork on the northwest arctic coast, the subject of Alaska\u2019s earliest regional development studies. He completed his PhD in 2005 and took a research fellowship at Open University in Great Britain, where he had the privilege to work in one of geography\u2019s leading research departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2008, Dr Kurtz returned to this part of the world. In Ottawa, he serves as an academic author and consultant on matters of economic geography, institutional analysis, and research methodology. His training and experience with sophisticated qualitative methodologies and his facility with statistical techniques make an excellent combination in economic geography, a field whose strength resides in its power to discern complex and critical connections between (macro) economic restructuring and the everyday (micro) experience of life in a community. He has taught economic geography at three universities and maintains a strong interest in indigenous communities and the Arctic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His research revolves around the geographies of economic knowledge production. Thus, it explores the junction of three fields of inquiry: 1) economic geography 2) historical geography and 3) research methodology. While he uses related historiographic techniques in other areas of human geography, the core of his work traces the quotidian practices through which economic information has been produced, analyzed, disseminated, and interpreted, in order to contribute to a better understanding of the limitations of different knowledge streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has completed substantial research projects on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the emergence of Alaska\u2019s Native corporations and economic development institutions;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>constructions of history, regional identity, and economic value in heritage tourism;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the history and historiographies of Anglo-American geography.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His current research examines various topics in three different areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the emergent texts and techniques of macro-economic analysis in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>cultural economies of expertise, credibility, and persuasion in recent financial regulation debates;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>immigrant employment and human capital assessment practices in local labour markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"select-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Select Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Arctic Approach: Journeys through a Changing World<\/em>, Volume Two (co-authored with Joe Smith and Mark Brandon). Open University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHeritage and Tourism\u201d in <em>Understanding the Practice of Heritage<\/em>, edited by Susie West. Manchester University Press, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cArctic\u201d (lead author with Annette Watson) in the <em>International Encyclopedia of Human Geography<\/em>, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift. Elsevier, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cArchives\u201d in <em>International Encyclopedia of Human Geography<\/em>, eds Kitchin and Thrift. Elsevier, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;Refereed Journals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRuptures and Recuperations of a Language of Racism in <em>Alaska\u2019s Rural \/ Urban Divide<\/em>,\u201d Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96\/3 (2006): 601-621.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRemembering the Town Body: Methodology and the Work of Local History,\u201d <em>Journal of Historical&nbsp; Geography<\/em> 28\/1 (2002): 42-62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSituating Practices: The Archive and the File Cabinet\u201d <em>Historical Geography<\/em>, 29 (2001): 26-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Web Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-id.org\/sunspots-and-blind-spots-in-economic-forecasting\">Sunspots and Blind Spots in Economic Forecasting<\/a>,\u201d <em>Atlas of Interdependence<\/em>, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open2.net\/interdependenceday\/economyecology.html\">Economy and Ecology<\/a>,\u201d <em>Interdependence Day<\/em>, 2006<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[top]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Dr. Matthew","cu_people_last_name":"Kurtz","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-1291","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"BA (SUNY Buffalo) MSc (Wisconsin Madison) PhD (Kentucky)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"kurtzm@uwalumni.com","cu_people_phone":"819-682-4520","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}