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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory

Matthew Christopher Soener

Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Sociology
Assistant Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Assistant Professor, European Union Center

Recent Publications

Soener, M., & Norris, D. (2025). The wages of investor power: shareholder exploitation in Europe. Social Forces, Article soaf029. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf029

Godechot, O., Tomaskovicdevey, D., Boza, I., Henriksen, L. F., Hermansen, A. S., Hou, F., Jung, J., Kodama, N., Křížková, A., Lippényi, Z., Melzer, S. M., Mun, E., Sabanci, H., Thaning, M., Apascaritei, P., Avent-Holt, D., Bandelj, N., Baudour, A., Cort, D., ... Soener, M. C. (2024). The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies. American Journal of Sociology, 130(2), 439-495. https://doi.org/10.1086/731603

Soener, M. (2024). Are IMF programs raising greenhouse gas emissions in the Global South? Socio-Economic Review, 22(4), 1637-1662. Article mwae006. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae006

Soener, M. (2024). Decarbonization and the Capitalist State. Sociology Compass, 18(11), Article e70011. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.70011

Godechot, O., Neumann, N., Apascaritei, P., Boza, I., Hallsten, M., Henriksen, L., Hermansen, A., Hou, F., Jung, J., Kodama, N., Křížková, A., Lippényi, Z., Elvira, M. M., Melzer, S. M., Mun, E., Sabanci, H., Soener, M., & Thaning, M. (2023). Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality. Socio-Economic Review, 21(3), 1601-1627. Article mwac036. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwac036

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