Harvard Sociologist Desmond to Speak at Clark University
Thursday, November 17, 2016
The lecture will take place on Wednesday, November 30 at 7 p.m. in the Jefferson Academic Center and is free and open to the public.
Matthew Desmond
Desmond lived in a Milwaukee trailer park while doing research for “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” (2016); his book follows eight Milwaukee individuals, families and landlords involved in the process of eviction.
The book affirms the centrality of home, and offers insights into the role housing plays in deepening equality in America. Desmond’s research argues that eviction is a cause, not a condition of poverty, and that the faces of America’s eviction epidemic belong to mothers and children.
Desmond is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project. A former member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, he is the author of the book, “On the Fireline,” co-author of two books on race, and editor of a collection of studies on severe deprivation in America.
His work has been supported by the Ford, Russell Sage, and National Science Foundations, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune.
In 2015, Desmond was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” grant—making him one of 24 to receive a no-strings-attached fellowship of $625,000 over five years.
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