RSF grantee Matthew Desmond (Harvard University) was recently named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow along with 23 other recipients. The prestigious MacArthur Award recognizes scholars, journalists, artists, and other public figures that are “shedding light and making progress on critical issues, and pushing the boundaries of their fields.”

Desmond is an urban sociologist whose work focuses on poverty and the low-income rental market, among other topics. He is the editor of the forthcoming inaugural double issue of RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, which will examine severe deprivation in America.

Click here to view Desmond’s profile on the MacArthur Foundation website.