Doctoral Candidate.
Department of Geography, University of Washington.

Editorial Assistant.
Social and Cultural Geography, Routledge.

Instructor.
Certificate Program in GIS, University of Washington Extension Outreach.

HASTAC Scholar.
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory.

Huckabay Teaching Fellow.
Preparing Future Faculty, Unversity of Washington Graduate School.

Student Representative.
GIS Specialty Group. Association of American Geographers.

2005 to present. Doctoral candidate, Department of Geography, University of Washington. Working title: Geographic information technologies, place, and subjectivity: Interrogating the constitutive spaces of the cyborg citizen. [committee: Timothy Nyerges (supervisor), Michael Brown, Sarah Elwood.]

2003 to 2005. Master of Arts (Geography), University of Washington.
Thesis: Implications for a public participation geographic information science: Analyzing trends in research and practice. [committee: Timothy Nyerges (supervisor), Michael Brown.]

1999 to 2002. Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude), Northwest Missouri State University. Major in Geography, double-minor in Geographic Information Systems and Computer Science Information Systems.
Undergraduate core research paper: Home-schooling families in Nodaway County, Missouri. [supervisor: Mark W. Corson.]

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2008. Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation (GSFEI) award. University of Washington.

2008-2009. HASTAC Scholar. Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory.

2008-2009. Huckabay Teaching Fellowship. University of Washington Graduate School. Preparing Future Faculty initiative.

2007-2008. Howard Martin Medalist. Department of Geography, University of Washington.

2007. Howard Martin Dissertation Fellowship. Department of Geography, University of Washington.

2007. Institute on the Public Humanities Fellowship. Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington.

2007-2008. Graduate Student Research Grant. Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.

2006. Co-author (with Serin Houston and Kevin Ramsey). University of Washington Student Technology Fee proposal for qualitative research equipment and software. Awarded: $34,326.10.

2006. Master’s Thesis Award. Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. February.

2005. Edward L. Ullman Award for Outstanding Master's Work, Department of Geography, University of Washington. June.

2002. Alfred H. Nolle Scholarship, Alpha Chi Honor Society. The Alfred H. Nolle Scholarship is a national scholarship through Alpha Chi Honor Society given to 10 undergraduate seniors.

2001 and 2002. Mark Jefferson Award, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University. The Mark Jefferson Award is given to the junior or senior with the highest grade point average in the Geology/Geography Department at NWMSU.

r e f e r e e d . p u b l i c a t i o n s

Wilson, Matthew W. Forthcoming, 2009. Cyborg geographies: Towards hybrid epistemologies. Gender, Place & Culture.

Brown, Michael, Matthew W. Wilson. 2009. Ten years on(ward)! Social & Cultural Geography. 10:1

Wilson, Matthew W., Barbara Poore. Forthcoming, 2009. Repositioning Critical GIS. Cartographica. 44:1.

Wilson, Matthew W. Forthcoming, 2009. Recalling insider-outsider debate: Towards a genealogy of qualitative GIS. In Qualitative GIS: A Mixed Methods Approach, edited by Sarah Elwood and Meghan Cope. Sage.

Kaserman, Bonnie, Matthew W. Wilson (equal contribution). Forthcoming, 2009. On not wanting it to count: Reading together as resistance. Area.

Ramsey, Kevin S., Matthew W. Wilson (equal contribution). Forthcoming. Rethinking the 'informed' participant: Precautions and recommendations for the design of online deliberation. In Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice. CSLI Publications. Todd Davies and Beth Noveck, editors.

Wilson, Matthew W. Forthcoming, 2009. Timothy Nyerges. In Encyclopedia of Geography. Sage. Barney Warf, editor.

Wilson, Matthew W. 2009. Framing political, personal expression on the web. In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. 2nd edition. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, editor. pp. 1580-1585.

Wilson, Matthew W., Kevin S. Ramsey (equal contribution). 2008. Integrating online deliberation into transportation investment decision-making: Preliminary reflections on a field experiment. In proceedings of Tools for Participation, DIAC / Online Deliberation 2008.

Nyerges, Tim, Kevin Ramsey, Matthew Wilson. 2006. Design considerations for an Internet portal to support public participation in transportation improvement decision making. In Collaborative Geographic Information Systems. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc. Suzana Dragicevic and Shivanand Balram, editors.

p r o f e s s i o n a l . e x p e r i e n c e : t e a c h i n g

2004 to 12/2008. Instructor, Certificate Program in GIS, University of Washington Extension Outreach. Course: Geo-spatial Information and Technologies (GEOGcp200).

04/2008 to 06/2008. Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Washington. Course: Geographic Information Systems Workshop (GEOG463).

01/2008 to 03/2008. Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Washington. Course: Urban Geographic Information Systems (GEOG461).

09/2007 to 12/2007. Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Washington. Course: Explanation and Understanding in Geography (GEOG315).

01/2005 to 03/2005. Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Washington. Course: Analytical Cartography (GEOG465).

01/2003 to 05/2003. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science Information Systems, Northwest Missouri State University. Courses: Data and File Structures (44-242), Database Systems (44-460).

08/2001 to 12/2002. Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology/Geography and Dept. of Computer Science Information Systems, Northwest Missouri State University. Courses: General Geology (27-110), Introduction to Geography (32-101), Fundamentals of Computer Science (44-230), Database Systems (44-460).

p r o f e s s i o n a l . e x p e r i e n c e : r e s e a r c h

01/2007 to 06/2008. GIS Analyst. ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. Supervisor: Katherine Beckett, University of Washington.

12/2007 to 03/2008. Co-investigator. Evaluating urban indicators using geographic information systems in Seattle, Washington. Principal Investigator: Chris Fade, Whitman College.

09/2003 to 12/2007. Research Assistant. Participatory Geographic Information Systems for Transportation, Department of Geography, University of Washington. Principal Investigator: Timothy Nyerges. Funded by National Science Foundation, Division of Experimental and Integrative Activities, Information Technology Research (ITR) Program, Project Number EIA 0325916, funds managed within the Digital Government Program.

i n v i t e d . l e c t u r e s

Wilson, Matthew W. 2008. “On focus groups and interactive mappings: Reviewing the rhythms of the neighborhood advocate.” Tracking the rhythms of daily life, an Economic & Social Research Council seminar of the Time-Space and Life Course seminar series, organized by Rachel Pain and Susan Smith. 26 August.

Elwood, Sarah; Katharyne Mitchell; Matt Sparke; Matthew W. Wilson. 2008. “Mappa-loquium: Finding our way with new mappings of geographical learning.” Department of Geography Colloquium, University of Washington. 30 May.

Wilson, Matthew. 2004. "'Participatory' GIS (PGIS): Theorizing 'community' as a perspective of 'participatory' GIS, through readings of Elwood and Craig, et al." Presented for the certificate program in GIS, cp200. 8 December.

Wilson, Matthew. 2004. "Creative collaboration: Toward an understanding of participation in participatory GIS (PGIS)." Presented at UW Geography Home Seminar. 2 December.

c o n f e r e n c e . p a r t i c i p a t i o n : p a p e r s

Wilson, Matthew W. 2008. "Cyborg geographies: Towards hybrid epistemologies." Association of American Geographers, 104th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 19 April.

Wilson, Matthew W. 2007. “Learning to laugh at ourselves: Approaching GIS critique from the 'inside'.” Association of American Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 21 April.

Ramsey, Kevin S. and Matthew W. Wilson (equal contribution). 2006. "Rethinking the 'Informed' Participant: Precautions and Recommendations for the Design of Online Deliberation." Faith, Knowledge, and the Interface of Epistemologies: Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Washington. 5 May.

Wilson, Matthew. 2006. "On producing an 'us' and 'them': political community in the context of PGIS." Association of American Geographers, 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 9 March.

Nyerges, Tim, Kevin Ramsey, and Matthew Wilson. 2005. "Designing Public Participation Geographic Information Systems to Support Analytic-Deliberative Democratic Processes for Local Governance." Research Symposium on Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access, The University of Utah. 12 November.

Wilson, Matthew, Kevin Ramsey, and Tim Nyerges. 2005. "Design considerations for supporting online, analytic-deliberative, public participation." 2nd Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research and Practice / DIAC-2005, Stanford University, CA. 21 May.

Wilson, Matthew. 2005. "Designing PPGIS with 'community' in mind: an analysis of trends in PPGISc." Association of American Geographers, 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. 7 April.

Wilson, Matthew, Christina Drew, Tim Nyerges, and Kevin Ramsey. 2004. "Comparing and constrasting models of participation for online transportation decision making." Poster presentation. National Conference on Digital Government Research, Seattle, WA. 24 May.

Wilson, Matthew and Tim Nyerges. 2004. "Conceptual framework for comparing participation models for transportation decision making." Association of American Geographers, 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. 19 March.

Wilson, Matthew. 2003. “Home-schooling families in Nodaway County, Missouri.” Association of American Geographers, 99th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. 8 March.

Wilson, Matthew. 2002. “Home-schooling families in Nodaway County, Missouri.” Alpha Chi Honor Society, 2002 Region IV Meeting, Salina, KS. 4 April.

c o n f e r e n c e . p a r t i c i p a t i o n : p a n e l i s t

2008. Panelist of Participatory GIS and Online Democracy: Reflections on a Field Experiment (panel session). Organized by Matthew W. Wilson and Kevin Ramsey. Association of American Geographers, 104th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 16 April. [chair: Keiron Bailey; panel members: Piotr Jankowski, Tim Nyerges, Kevin Ramsey, Martin Swobodzinski, Matthew W. Wilson.]

2007. Panelist of Public Participation GIS: Metrics of Empowerment. Organized by Melinda J. Laituri. Association of American Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 20 April. [panel members: Sarah Elwood, Renee Sieber, Daniel Weiner, Matthew Wilson.]

c o n f e r e n c e . p a r t i c i p a t i o n : o r g a n i z e r

2008. Co-organizer (with Kevin Ramsey) of Governing Technologies I: Representation, Participation, and Governance in the 'Digital Age' I (paper session). Association of American Geographers, 104th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 19 April. [chair: Matthew W. Wilson; paper presenters: Michael W. Longan, John Saunders, Richard Donohue.]

2008. Co-organizer (with Kevin Ramsey) of Governing Technologies I: Representation, Participation, and Governance in the 'Digital Age' II (paper session). Association of American Geographers, 104th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 19 April. [chair: Kevin Ramsey; paper presenters: Jeremy Crampton, Jacob J. Peters, Sarah Starkweather, Sam Kinsley, Matthew W. Wilson.]

2008. Co-organizer (with Barbara Poore) of 'Straddling the Fence' I: Theory, Practice, and History in Critical GIS (paper session). Association of American Geographers, 104th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 17 April. [chair: David O'Sullivan; paper presenters: Patrick McHaffie, Miriam Cope, Dalia Varanka, Jin-Kyu Jung.]

2008. Co-organizer (with Barbara Poore) of 'Straddling the Fence' II: Theory, Practice, and History in Critical GIS (panel session). Association of American Geographers, 104th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 17 April. [chair: Eric Sheppard; panel members: Francis Harvey, Mei-Po Kwan, David O'Sullivan, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Nadine Schuurman.]

2008. Co-organizer (with Kevin Ramsey) of Participatory GIS and Online Democracy: Reflections on a Field Experiment (panel session). Association of American Geographers, 104th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. 16 April. [chair: Keiron Bailey; panel members: Piotr Jankowski, Tim Nyerges, Kevin Ramsey, Martin Swobodzinski, Matthew W. Wilson.]

2007. Co-organizer and co-chair (with Kevin Ramsey) of Research Design and Methodologies in Critical GIS Research I (panel session). Association of American Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 21 April. [panel members: Stuart Aitken, Michael Brown, Jeremy Crampton, Vincent Del Casino Jr., Sarah Elwood, Rina Ghose, Stephen Hanna, Francis Harvey, LaDona Knigge, Lawrence Knopp Jr., Nadine Schuurman.]

2007. Co-organizer (with Kevin Ramsey) of Research Design and Methodologies in Critical GIS Research II (paper session). Association of American Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 21 April. [paper presenters: Fletcher Chmara-Huff, Wen Lin, Eli Moore, Kevin Ramsey, Matthew Wilson. chair: Karen Culcasi.]

2007. Co-organizer (with Kevin Ramsey) of Research Design and Methodologies in Critical GIS Research III (paper session). Association of American Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 21 April. [paper presenters: Hamid Ekbia, Jin-Kyu Jung, Falguni Mukherjee, Ingrid Nelson, Brian Thayer. chair: Rina Ghose.]

2006. Co-organizer (with Kevin Ramsey) of The Politics of Participatory GIS I (paper session). Association of American Geographers, 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 9 March. [paper presenters: Jonnell Allen, Peter Kyem, Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Kevin Ramsey, Matthew Wilson. chair: Rina Ghose.]

2006. Co-organizer (with Kevin Ramsey) and chair of The Politics of Participatory GIS II (panel session). Association of American Geographers, 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 9 March. [panel members: Keiron Bailey, Meghan Cope, Sarah Elwood, Rina Ghose, Kevin Ramsey.]

s e r v i c e : p r o f e s s i o n a l

2008. reviewer for GeoJournal (2 manuscripts).

2008. reviewer for Social and Cultural Geography.

2007. reviewer for Journal of Applied Geography.

2007. reviewer for chapter in Qualitative GIS: Mixed Methods in Practice and Theory. Edited by Sarah Elwood and Meghan Cope. Sage.

2006. reviewer for Transactions in Geographic Information Systems. Blackwell Publishing (2 manuscripts).

s e r v i c e : a d v i s i n g . a n d . m e n t o r i n g

2008. Facilitator. Balancing Graduate Demands, TA Conference, University of Washington. 16 September.

2008. Undergraduate Independent Study Mentor. Oliver Kurabi, senior in Geography, University of Washington.

2007. Co-chair (with Tim Stiles). Graduate Student Orientation, Department of Geography, University of Washington.

2005. Co-chair (with Anna McCall-Taylor). Graduate Student Orientation, Department of Geography, University of Washington.

2005 to 2006. Co-president (with Anna McCall-Taylor). Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA), Department of Geography, University of Washington.

s e r v i c e : d e p a r t m e n t . a n d . u n i v e r s i t y

2008. Facilitator. Introduction to Departmental Technology Resources, Department of Geography, University of Washington. 22 September.

2008. Facilitator. Departmental 'Tech' Workshop, Department of Geography, University of Washington. 21 May.

2008 to 2009. Student Representative. GIS Specialty Group. Association of American Geographers.

2004 to 2007. Volunteer. Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods Initiative (SUNI), Sustainable Seattle.

2006. Graduate Student Representative. Fiscal Coordinator Search Committee, Department of Geography, University of Washington.

2006. Graduate Student Representative. GIScience Assistant Professor Search Committee, Department of Geography, University of Washington.

1999 to 2005, 2007 to 2008. Media School Instructor, American Legion Missouri Boys State, Warrensburg, MO 64093. Third week of June.

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2008. Foucault Across the Disciplines. University of California, Santa Cruz. 1-2 March.

2007. Second Annual Cascadian Mini-Conference on Critical Geographies. Department of Environmental Studies, Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University and the International Critical Geography Group. Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA. October. Session Chair: Questioning Urban Geographies.

2007. Interacting on Interdisciplinarity: Opportunities and Successes. Graduate and Professional Education Week, Graduate School, University of Washington. 1 March.

2006. Inaugural Cascadian Mini-Conference on Critical Geographies. Simon Fraser University Geography and the International Critical Geography Group. Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser U., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. October.

2006. ASIS&T 7th Information Architecture Summit. American Society for Information Science and Technology. Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. March.

2005. Hansard Society Online Coordinators Course. Hansard Society, 9 Kingsway, London WC2B 6XF. January through February.

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11/2007 to 12/2007. Geo-blog Consultant, Department of Geography, University of Washington.

02/2007 to 03/2007. Website Maintenance, Department of Geography, University of Washington.

07/2003 to 09/2003. Executive Assistant, Paul B. Anderson, Media Agent, Seattle, WA 98136.

04/2002 to 06/2003. GIS Technician, Midland GIS Solutions, 501 N. Market, Maryville, MO 64468.

08/2002 to 12/2002. Resident Assistant, Department of Residential Life, Northwest Missouri State University, 800 University Drive, Maryville, MO 64468.

05/2001 to 08/2001. Copy Editor, Peninsula Daily News, 305 West First Street, Port Angeles, WA 98362.

05/1996 to 05/2001. Macintosh Consultant/Layout & Design Artist, Nodaway News Leader, 116 East Third Street, Maryville, MO 64468.

05/1996 to 05/2001 Layout & Design Artist, The Zimmerman Ancestry, Maryville, MO 64468.