Matthew Desmond
Sociologist and poverty researcher
Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist at Princeton University who researches poverty and public policy. His book Evicted won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
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American Born in San Jose, California, United States
About Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. He holds the Maurice P. During chair in Sociology at Princeton University and directs the Eviction Lab there. He also writes for The New York Times Magazine as a contributing writer. His research and reporting center on American poverty and public policy. He has written more than fifty academic studies and several books. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City earned the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Carnegie Medal and the PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. His books in our catalog include Evicted and Poverty, by America. Desmond has received a MacArthur Fellowship and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.