Desmond, Matthew (2018). 'Why Work Doesn't Work Anymore.' New York Times Magazine, p.Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Emirbayer, Mustafa Desmond, Matthew (2015).Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America. Emirbayer, Mustafa and Matthew Desmond (2009).On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters. 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.' Works 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. Honors ĭesmond was awarded a Harvey Fellowship in 2006 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.

Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. degree, summa cum laude in communications and justice studies. In 2002, he graduated from ASU with a B.S. Education ĭesmond studied as an undergraduate at Arizona State University, serving at the same time as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity in Tempe. Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. Matthew Desmond (born 1979/1980) is a sociologist and the Maurice P. Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2017) University of Wisconsin, Madison ( MA, PhD) Matthew Desmond discusses Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City at the 2017 National Book Festival

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