Matthew Desmond

 ( 1970s Births ) 

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist. He is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

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Education As an undergraduate at Arizona State University, Desmond was a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity in Tempe.Jennifer Schuessler. "A Harvard Sociologist on Watching Families Lose Their Homes", The New York Times, February 19, 2016. In 2002, he graduated from ASU with a B.S. degree with highest honors in communications and justice studies. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2010.Bill Glauber. "'Genius grant' winner Matthew Desmond made in Madison, Milwaukee". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September. 30, 2015.

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Honors Desmond was awarded a Harvey Fellowship in 2006 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the 2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for his work about poverty, . His 2017 Pulitzer Prize citation read, "For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."The Pulitzer Prizes. " Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (Crown)".

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Works

• Matthew Desmond (2026). 9780226144078, University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226144078
• Emirbayer, Mustafa and Matthew Desmond (2009). Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• (2026). 9780226253664, University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226253664
• Desmond, Matthew (2016). . New York: Crown/Archetype, 2016.
• Desmond, Matthew (2018). "Why Work Doesn't Work Anymore." New York Times Magazine, p. 36, September 16, 2018.
• Desmond, Matthew (2019). " American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation." New York Times Magazine, 2019 (part of The 1619 Project).
• Desmond, Matthew (2021), "Capitalism", chapter in .
• Desmond, Matthew (2023). Poverty, by America. New York: Crown, 2023.

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External links

• Official page of "Evicted"
• Princeton tenure

Categories: 1970s Births, Living People, 21st-century American Male Writers, 21st-century American Non-fiction Writers, American Male Non-fiction Writers, 21st-century American Sociologists, Arizona State University Alumni, Harvard University Department Of Sociology Faculty, Macarthur Fellows, Members Of The American Philosophical Society, National Book Critics Circle Award Winners, Princeton University Faculty, Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction Winners, University Of Wisconsin–madison Alumni, Urban Theorists, Year Of Birth Missing

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