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Matthew Desmond

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Matthew Desmond
Desmond in 2023
Born1979 or 1980 (age 43–44)
EducationArizona State University, Tempe (BS)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (MA, PhD)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Doctoral advisorMustafa 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

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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

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Desmond, Matthew (2010). Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty (PhD). University of Wisconsin-Madison. OCLC 732383033.
  2. ^ "Matthew Desmond | Department of Sociology".
  3. ^ "The Eviction Lab". Eviction Lab. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
  4. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022".
  5. ^ "Matthew Desmond | Department of Sociology". Sociology.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-06-15. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  6. ^ Jennifer Schuessler. "A Harvard Sociologist on Watching Families Lose Their Homes", The New York Times, February 19, 2016.
  7. ^ "Matthew Desmond '02 B.S." Barrett, The Honors College, Arizona State University. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  8. ^ "Matt Desmond". Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  9. ^ a b Bill Glauber. "'Genius grant' winner Matthew Desmond made in Madison, Milwaukee". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September. 30, 2015.
  10. ^ "Alumnus Desmond wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Evicted'". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  11. ^ "Mustard Seed Foundation » List of Fellows". Msfdn.org. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  12. ^ "Video: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Announcement". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  13. ^ Calvin Reid (March 17, 2017). "Louise Erdrich, Matthew Desmond Win 2016 NBCC Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  14. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes. "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (Crown)".
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External videos
video icon Poverty in America is by design w/Matthew Desmond on YouTube
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