Position
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology
Role
Office of Population Research, Program in Law and Public Affairs
Title
Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy
Email
matthew.desmond@princeton.edu
Assistant
Bria Dixon
Office
153 Wallace Hall
Website
https://scholar.princeton.edu/matthewdesmond/
Bio/Description
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Matthew Desmond is the is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of "fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate."
Selected Publications
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the America City,??New York: Crown, 2016
The Racial Order (with Mustafa Emirbayer), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015
Race in America (with Mustafa Emirbayer), New York: Norton, 2015
On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters,??Chicago:??University of Chicago Press, 2007
Full publication list available here.
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