Emirbayer, Mustafa, and Matthew Desmond. Submitted. The Racial Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Desmond, Matthew, and Mustafa Emirbayer. 2009. Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America. New York: McGraw-Hill. Website

Desmond, Matthew. 2007. On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Website

Desmond, Matthew, and Nicol Valdez. 2013. Unpolicing the Urban Poor: Consequences of Third-Party Policing for Inner-City Women. American Sociological Review 78: 117–141. article.pdf supplement.pdf

Desmond, Matthew. 2012. Disposable Ties and the Urban Poor. American Journal of Sociology 117: 1295-1335. pdf

Desmond, Matthew. 2012. Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty. American Journal of Sociology 118: 88-133. pdf

Emirbayer, Mustafa, and Matthew Desmond. 2012. Race and Reflexivity. Ethnic and Racial Studies 35: 574-599. pdf of symposia

Desmond, Matthew, and Mustafa Emirbayer. 2012. To Imagine and Pursue Racial Justice. Race, Ethnicity and Education. pdf

Turly, Ruth Lopez, and Matthew Desmond. 2011. Contributions to College Costs by Married, Divorced, and Remarried Parents. Journal of Family Issues 32: 762-90. pdf

Desmond, Matthew. 2011. Making Firefighters Deployable. Qualitative Sociology 34: 59-77. pdf

Martin, John Levi, and Matthew Desmond. 2010. Political Position and Social Knowledge. Sociological Forum 25: 1-26. pdf

Turly, Ruth Lopez, Matthew Desmond, and Sarah Bruch. 2010. Unanticipated Educational Consequences of a Positive Child-Parent Relationship. Journal of Marriage and Family 72: 1377-90. pdf

Desmond, Matthew, and Ruth Lopez Turley. 2009. The Role of Familism in Explaining the Hispanic-White College Application Gap. Social Problems 56: 311-34. pdf

Desmond, Matthew, and Mustafa Emirbayer. 2009. What is Racial Domination?. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 6: 335-55. pdf

Desmond, Matthew. 2006. Becoming a Firefighter. Ethnography 7: 387-421. pdf

Desmond, Matthew. 2006. Des morts incompetents. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 165: 8-27. pdf

Desmond, Matthew. 2009. Who's Helping the Evicted?. Everyday Sociology. link

Desmond, Matthew. 2009. Bottoms Up. Contexts. pdf

Desmond, Matthew. 2008. The Lie of Heroism. Contexts . pdf

Desmond, Matthew. 2010. Housing Crisis in the Inner City. Chicago Tribune. Website

Desmond, Matthew. 2009. The Real W-2 Problem is Stagnant Pay. Wisconsin State Journal. Website