Matthew Wilson (they/he) is an award-winning educator, co-creator, and public 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.

Wilson is the co-author (with Dr. John Anderson) of the essay ‘Memorializing Black life and death: contemplative inquiry in interdisciplinary studies’ in Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture (2025), co-edited by Felipe Hernández and Itohan Osayimwese.

Wilson wrote the entry ‘Positivism’ in The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century, co-edited by Lydia Moland and Alison Stone (2025).

Wilson also co-authored and co-edited (with Sean Burns) Understanding Site in Design Pedaagogy (2022).

As a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accredited professional, Wilson has worked with design firms on sustainable and regenerative design projects in the Americas, the Middle East, and in Europe.