Desmond was awarded a Harvey Fellowship in 2006 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.[9][11] He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the 2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for his work about poverty, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.[12][13] His 2017 Pulitzer Prize citation read, "For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."[14]
Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist. He is 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]
