Matthew Desmond
Desmond at the 2023 National Book Festival
Born	1979 or 1980 (age 43–44)
Education	Arizona State University, Tempe ( BS) University of Wisconsin, Madison ( MA, PhD)
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Mustafa Emirbayer [1]

Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. ^{[2] [3]} Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. ^[4] He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. ^[5]

Education

Desmond studied as an undergraduate at Arizona State University, serving at the same time as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity in Tempe. ^[6] In 2002, he graduated from ASU with a B.S. degree, summa cum laude in communications and justice studies. ^{[7] [8]} He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ^{[9] [10]}

Honors

Desmond was awarded a Harvey Fellowship in 2006 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. ^{[9] [11]} 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. ^{[12] [13]} 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." ^[14]

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.
• Desmond, Matthew (2023). Poverty, by America. New York: Crown, 2023. ISBN  9780593239919

References

External links

External videos
Poverty in America is by design w/Matthew Desmond on YouTube

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