| Evicted: Poverty and profit in the American city M Desmond Crown, 2016 | 2593 | 2016 |
| Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty M Desmond American Journal of Sociology 118 (1), 88-133, 2012 | 839 | 2012 |
| Police violence and citizen crime reporting in the black community M Desmond, AV Papachristos, DS Kirk American sociological review 81 (5), 857-876, 2016 | 725 | 2016 |
| Relational ethnography M Desmond Theory and society 43, 547-579, 2014 | 592 | 2014 |
| Disposable Ties and the Urban Poor M Desmond American Journal of Sociology 117 (5), 1295-1335, 2012 | 558 | 2012 |
| Eviction's fallout: housing, hardship, and health M Desmond, RT Kimbro Social forces 94 (1), 295-324, 2015 | 537 | 2015 |
| On the fireline: Living and dying with wildland firefighters M Desmond University of Chicago Press, 2007 | 410* | 2007 |
| Forced displacement from rental housing: Prevalence and neighborhood consequences M Desmond, T Shollenberger Demography 52 (5), 1751-1772, 2015 | 360 | 2015 |
| The role of familism in explaining the Hispanic-White college application gap M Desmond, RNL Turley Social Problems 56 (2), 311-334, 2009 | 347 | 2009 |
| Housing and employment insecurity among the working poor M Desmond, C Gershenson Social problems 63 (1), 46-67, 2016 | 331 | 2016 |
| Forced relocation and residential instability among urban renters M Desmond, C Gershenson, B Kiviat Social Service Review 89 (2), 227-262, 2015 | 323 | 2015 |
| Unpolicing the urban poor: Consequences of third-party policing for inner-city women M Desmond, N Valdez American sociological review 78 (1), 117-141, 2013 | 313 | 2013 |
| The racial order M Emirbayer, M Desmond University of Chicago Press, 2015 | 295 | 2015 |
| What is racial domination? M Desmond, M Emirbayer Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 6 (2), 335-355, 2009 | 281 | 2009 |
| Who gets evicted? Assessing individual, neighborhood, and network factors M Desmond, C Gershenson Social science research 62, 362-377, 2017 | 258 | 2017 |
| Race and reflexivity M Emirbayer, M Desmond Ethnic and racial studies 35 (4), 574-599, 2012 | 221 | 2012 |
| Becoming a firefighter M Desmond Ethnography 7 (4), 387-421, 2006 | 199 | 2006 |
| Racial domination, racial progress: The sociology of race in America M Desmond, M Emirbayer McGraw-Hill, 2010 | 187 | 2010 |
| Evicting children M Desmond, W An, R Winkler, T Ferriss Social Forces 92 (1), 303-327, 2013 | 186 | 2013 |
| Unaffordable America: poverty, housing, and eviction: American Journal of Sociology M Desmond The affordable housing reader, 389-395, 2022 | 169 | 2022 |
