About Matt
Matt Sparke is a geographer and scholar of globalization whose work addresses global health, citizenship, neoliberalism, geopolitics, and borders. As Distinguished Professor of Politics at the University of California Santa Cruz, he also co-directs the interdisciplinary program in Global and Community Health. Matt has written two books: Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions and Uneven Integration (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and In the Space of Theory: Post-foundational Geographies of the Nation-State (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press); along with over 100 peer-reviewed publications that are listed here, on Google Scholar, and on his CV.
Education and Training
Matt was born in Tonbridge, England in 1967. He was educated at a state comprehensive school in Tunbridge Wells, then at the University of Oxford (where David Harvey was his main mentor), and then at the University of British Columbia (where Derek Gregory was his PhD advisor). He joined the faculty in International Studies and Geography at the University of Washington in 1995. After 22 years in Seattle, he moved to the Department of Politics at UC Santa Cruz in 2017.
Email: msparke@ucsc.edu
Address: Politics Dept, Merrill College Services, UCSC,
1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA