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SUMMARY:'Poverty\, unemployment and eviction in America' - Professor Matt 
 Desmond
DTSTART:20190314T170000Z
DTEND:20190314T183000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Adam Coutts
DESCRIPTION:Registration free and open to all\n\nLecture followed by drink
 s reception.\n\nMatthew Desmond is a Professor in Princeton's Department o
 f Sociology.\n\nAfter receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of W
 isconsin at Madison\, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior
  Fellow. He is the author of four books\, including Evicted: Poverty and P
 rofit in the American City (2016)\, which won the Pulitzer Prize\, Nationa
 l 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\, hous
 ing insecurity\, public policy\, racial inequality\, and ethnography. He i
 s the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship\, the American Bar Asso
 ciation'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.\n\nFor mo
 re information contact Dr Adam Coutts: apc31@cam.ac.uk
LOCATION:Sinyi lecture theatre\, Simon Sainsbury Centre\, Cambridge Judge 
 Business School (http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/location.html)
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