Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond | |
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Desmond in 2023 | |
| Born | 1979 or 1980 (age 44–45) |
| 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 |
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. Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.