Matthew Desmond is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and codirector of the Justice and Poverty Project st Harvard University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. His primary teaching and research interests include urban sociology, poverty, race and ethnicity, organizations and work, social theory, and ethnography.
In 2015, Desmond was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” grant. He is also the author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” for which he received a Pulitzer prize in 2017.