Matthew Wilson (they/he) is an award-winning educator, co-creator, and historian of social and environmental justice.

Wilson’s teaching and research in the knowledge-area of “critical theories of place studies” employs intersectional frameworks to reveal the connections between race, place, gender, ethnicity, class, and social power. Wilson’s work centers on the spatial ideas and practices of radical intellectual movements of the long nineteenth century. It demonstrates how disparate thinkers aligned with causes abolitionist, anti-imperialist, feminist, womanist, anti-racist, or social democratic not only made incremental transformations to society but also to the built environment.