Matt Gannon

Academic Background

Matt Gannon is a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. As a Marshall Scholar, he studied homelessness and eviction, graduating with distinction from the MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford and the MA in Sociology at the University of Manchester. He graduated with the rank of salutatorian from Dartmouth College, where he researched interventions to reduce the stigmatization of unhoused people. While in the UK, he served as an editor of the Graduate Inequality Review and conducted research about housing insecurity and incarceration at the Centre for Homelessness Impact. Named a John Robert Lewis Scholar, his advocacy focuses on ending the criminalization of homelessness. 

Research Interests: Homelessness, eviction, racial inequality, poverty