Matt Gannon

Academic Background

Matt Gannon is an incoming Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. As a Marshall Scholar, he studies eviction and homelessness, pursuing an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford and an MA in Sociology at the University of Manchester. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he researched interventions to reduce the stigmatization of unhoused people. He currently serves as an editor of the Graduate Inequality Review and conducts research about housing insecurity 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