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]
Matthew Desmond | |
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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] |
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]
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]
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Poverty in America is by design w/Matthew Desmond on YouTube |