Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab.[3][4][5] Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.[6]

Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond discusses Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City at the 2017 National Book Festival
Born	1979 or 1980 (age 41–42)[1]
Alma mater	Arizona State University (B.S.) University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.)
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Mustafa Emirbayer[2]

Education

Desmond studied as an undergraduate at Arizona State University, serving at the same time as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity in Tempe.[7] In 2002, he graduated from ASU with a B.S. degree, summa cum laude in communications and justice studies.[8][9] He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[1][10] He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.[11][12][13]

Honors

Desmond was awarded a Harvey Fellowship in 2006 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.[1][14] 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, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.[15][16] 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."[17]

Works

• Desmond, Matthew (2008). On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-14407-8.
• Emirbayer, Mustafa and Matthew Desmond (2009). Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780072970517
• Emirbayer, Mustafa; Desmond, Matthew (2015). The Racial Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-25366-4.
• Desmond, Matthew (2016). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown/Archetype, 2016. ISBN 9780553447446
• 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 The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.

References

External links

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• Official page of "Evicted"
• Appearances on C-SPAN