Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond
Desmond in 2023
Born1979 or 1980 (age 44–45)
EducationArizona State University, Tempe (BS)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (MA, PhD)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Doctoral advisorMustafa 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.