Matthew Desmond

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Matthew Desmond (2017)

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and university professor .

Life

Desmond received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 2010 . He then moved to Harvard University . He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015 . Since July 2017 he has been Professor of Sociology at Princeton University . His scientific interest is urban sociology . Within this subject, he deals in particular with the conditions and consequences of social inequality as a result of poverty and ethnicity . For his book Zwangsgeräum. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Books in 2017 for poverty and profit in the city .

Fonts

  • Matthew Desmond: On the fireline. Living and dying with wildland firefighters . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-14407-8 .
  • Matthew Desmond, Mustafa Emirbayer: Racial domination, racial progress. The sociology of race in America . McGraw-Hill Higher Education, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-07-297051-7 .
  • Matthew Desmond, Mustafa Emirbayer: The racial order . Chicago 2015, ISBN 978-0-226-25349-7 .
  • Matthew Desmond: Evicted. Poverty and profit in the city . Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-05027-5 (English: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City . Translated by Volker Zimmermann, Isabelle Brandstetter).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthew Desmond, 35, living in Cambridge, Massachusetts , NPR September 29, 2017, accessed October 8, 2018
  2. ↑ As of July 1, 2017, Prof. Desmond is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. In: Princeton University. 2017, accessed on August 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Strong Pulitzer showing for Harvard. Sociologist Matthew Desmond, journalist David Fahrenthold, novelist Colson Whitehead, and composer Du Yun among winners . In: Harvard Gazette . April 10, 2017 ( harvard.edu [accessed August 21, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Desmond, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century