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Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond is a 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.”
Poverty, by America
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
9780593239933
$20.00 US
Paperback
Mar 26, 2024
Crown
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
Evicted
Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
9780553447453
$20.00 US
Paperback
Feb 28, 2017
Crown
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

Matthew Desmond on How to End Poverty, and His Book POVERTY, BY AMERICA | Inside the Book

How housing is ignored in the poverty discussion | Author Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond (author of Evicted) | What I'm Reading

EVICTED by Matthew Desmond | Book Trailer

Books

Poverty, by America
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
9780593239933
$20.00 US
Paperback
Mar 26, 2024
Crown
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
Evicted
Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
9780553447453
$20.00 US
Paperback
Feb 28, 2017
Crown
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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Matthew Desmond on How to End Poverty, and His Book POVERTY, BY AMERICA | Inside the Book

How housing is ignored in the poverty discussion | Author Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond (author of Evicted) | What I'm Reading

EVICTED by Matthew Desmond | Book Trailer

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