Matthew Desmond
Desmond in 2023
Born	1979 or 1980 (age 45–46)
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 an Americansociologist. He is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology atPrinceton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab.^[2][3] Desmond was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 2022.^[4] He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences atHarvard University.^[5]

As an undergraduate atArizona State University, Desmond was a volunteer withHabitat for Humanity inTempe.^[6] In 2002, he graduated from ASU with aB.S. degree with highest honors in communications and justice studies.^[7][8] He received aPh.D. in sociology from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison in 2010.^[9][10]

Desmond was awarded a Harvey Fellowship in 2006 and aMacArthur Fellowship in 2015.^[9][11] He won the 2017Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and the 2016National 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 massevictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."^[14]

• 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 ofThe 1619 Project).
• Desmond, Matthew (2021), "Capitalism", chapter inThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.
• Desmond, Matthew (2023).Poverty, by America. New York: Crown, 2023.ISBN 9780593239919

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

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