Academic Background
Matthew is a political and historical geographer whose research has addressed geopolitics, race, and class in the production of imperial territories and borderlands and financial services architecture in northern English towns. Matt completed a PhD in Political Geography at King’s College London and, following spells teaching at Sheffield and Leicester universities and Queen Mary University of London, was most recently Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Sussex.
Non-Academic Information
Matt also works as a researcher for the Office for National Statistics and co-manages an under-9s football team.
Publications
Tillotson, M. 2022. A Yorkstone Godzilla. Mortgages, biopolitics and the materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968-1974. Journal of Cultural Economy 15 617-633.
Tillotson, M. 2022. White guys in the borderlands. Boundary surveying, imperial technoscience and environmental change in the Nile Valley and at Lake Rudolf (Turkana), 1898-1909. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 112 1649-1665.
Tillotson, M. & Mustafa, D. 2021. An Arendtian geopolitics. Action, power, and the deferral of work. Progress in Human Geography 45 548-565.