Matthew Desmond | |
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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]