David Wagner
'A prolific writer, Dr. Wagner has authored 12 books since 1990, most of which concern the subject of economic inequality within the United States. A few of these titles include "Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community," which won Dr. Wagner the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1994; "The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice," which earned a book award from the Northeast Popular Culture Association in 1998; and "Confronting Homelessness: Poverty, Politics, and the Failure of Social Policy," which secured an Outstanding Book Award from Choice magazine, a publication of the American Library Association, in 2013.'