Poverty, unemployment and eviction in America - guest lecture by Pulitzer prize winner Professor Matthew Desmond

Thu 14 March 2019

Simon Sainsbury Centre, Sinyi Room, Judge Business School

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. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of "fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.

For more information contact Dr Adam Coutts: apc31@cam.ac.uk

Evicted - book overview

http://www.evictedbook.com/books/evicted-tr/evicted-hc

http://www.evictedbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/EVICTED.DESMOND.978-0-553-44745-3.InstructG_PG.16pgs.FINAL_.NO_CROPS.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ovyccOXyoQ

Cost: FREE AND OPEN TO ALL