2022 Corporations and States: A Customer-Service Corporation inside the Punjab State Police. Cultural Anthropology 37(4): 764–792. PDF
2020 Market Making in Punjab Lotteries: Regulation and Mutual Dependence. In Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Contested Jurisdiction and Embedded Exchange. Ed. Ajay Gandhi, Barbara Harriss-White, Douglas E. Haynes and Sebastian Schwecke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF
2019 Towards a History of Files. Administory: Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsgeschichte (4):3-9. Matthew Hull, Stefan Nellen, and Thomas Rohringer. PDF
2019 Towards a History of Files. Eds. Matthew S. Hull, Stefan Nellen and Thomas Rohringer. Special issue of Administory: Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsgeschichte, 4. Open access link.
2017 “A Review of the Anthropological Literature on the Civil Service.” Policy Research Working Paper; No. 8081. World Bank, Washington, DC. Colin Hoag and Matthew Hull. PDF
2017 Interview with Matthew Hull: “It’s All about Real Bureaucracy, Control, and Stability.” Journal of Economic Sociology. 18(3): 160-174. PDF
2013 “The materiality of indeterminacy. . . on paper, at least” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (3): 441–47. Contribution to HAU Book Symposium on Government of Paper. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (3): 399–447. Comments by Katherine Verdery, Akhil Gupta, Michael Gilsenan, Naveeda Khan, Nakassis Constantinos, Justin Richland, Beatrice Fraenke, Stephen M. Lyon, and David Henig. PDF
2012 “Bureaucracy and Documents.” Annual Review of Anthropology, 41:251-67. PDF
2011 “Communities of Place, Not Kind: American Technologies of Neighborhood in Post-Colonial Delhi.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 53(4): 757–790. PDF
2010 “Democratic Technologies of Speech: From WWII America to Post-colonial Delhi,” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 20(2): 257-282. PDF
2009 “Uncivil Politics and the Appropriation of Planning in Islamabad,” In Beyond Crisis: A Critical look at Contemporary Pakistan. Ed. Naveeda Khan. London: Routledge, pp. 442-471. PDF
2008 “Ruled by Records: The Appropriation of Land and the Misappropriation of Lists in Islamabad.” American Ethnologist, 34(4): 501–518. PDF
2003 “The File: Agency, Authority, and Autography in a Pakistan Bureaucracy,” Language and Communication, 23(3-4): 287-314. PDF