Matthew Desmond Inaugurates Clemson Lecture Series

Matthew Desmond will serve as the inaugural speaker in Clemson's emerging Lectures in Law and Humanities Series. Sponsored by Chris Loebsack, this series will provide an annual boost to humanities programming at the university. Lee Morrissey, founding director of Clemson's Humanities Hub, spoke to the value of this effort. "Chris Loebsack's remarkable gift establishes a valuable legacy for Clemson students, faculty and community members to learn about the many broad and often personal impacts of the law — how the law and the humanities intersect."

Desmond won the 2017 Prize in General Nonfiction for his book "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City." It exposed 2008's mass evictions and their relationship to escalating poverty and economic exploitation. Desmond has also recieved a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. 

More information on the lecture series can be found here.