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Matt has been a Research Associate at the CSLBS since January 2020 with a focus on database development and innovative digital techniques to reconstruct personal and community histories of enslavement as part of the Valuable Lives project.
He has also worked as project manager on many of the Centre’s public history collaborations, including co-leading the Global Threads project tracing connections between global narratives of resistance, solidarity, colonization and slavery and Manchester’s industrial heritage.
He has published extensively on environment, colonization, class, and race in Victorian public discourse and post-industrial regional identity in his Inventing the Black Country research project.
He has conducted public and community history projects, engagement events, and oral history research across three continents and worked as a contributor and advisor on the Guardian’s Cotton Capital series. He completed his PhD in American Studies at the University of Manchester in 2017.
