Matthew is a recent PhD in Political Science at Indiana University - Bloomington, and he is currently the assistant director of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State in the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He defended his dissertation, Learning Regimes: The Politics of Expertise, in May 2024.

Matthew’s recent article, “Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy,” is published in the journal Political Theory, and his chapter “False Needs and Artificial Intelligence” is published in The Marcusean Mind.

His teaching and research interests center on the interdisciplinary intersection of democratic theory and science and technology studies. In particular, he is strongly interested in the politics of artificial intelligence.