Matthew Desmond

 

 

Articles

Desmond, Matthew, and Ruth López Turley, “Staying Home for College: An Explanation for the Hispanic-White
Education Gap,” forthcoming in Social Problems

Desmond, Matthew, “The Lie of Heroism," Contexts 7 (2008): 56-58.

Desmond, Matthew, “Becoming a Firefighter,” Ethnography 7 (2006): 387-421. 

Desmond, Matthew, “Des morts incompétents,” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 165 (2006): 8-27. 

Revised & Resubmitted

Desmond, Matthew,  “Making Workers Deployable,” revised and resubmitted to American Journal of Sociology

Desmond, Matthew, and Mustafa Emirbayer, “An Introduction to Racial Domination,” revised and resubmitted to Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race

Articles under Review

Emirbayer, Mustafa, and Matthew Desmond, "Race and Reflexivity"

Turley, Ruth López, and Matthew Desmond, “Contributions to College Costs by Married and Divorced Parents”

Martin, John Levi, and Matthew Desmond, “The Effects of Ideology on Descriptive and Prescriptive Reasoning”

Turley, Ruth López and Matthew Desmond, “The Unanticipated Consequences of a Good Family: Rethinking the
Link between Family Attributes and Educational Outcomes"

  • Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “New Study on College-Going Rates Gives Mom Something Else to Worry About,” May 8, 2008. Click here to read.

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