Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he also leads the Eviction Lab. He writes about poverty and housing, and his book Evicted follows families on the edge of losing their homes in the American city. His earlier books include On the Fireline, about wildland firefighters, and The Racial Order, written with Mustafa Emirbayer. He received a MacArthur grant in 2015 and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.