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