معرفی
Adaner Usmani is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Studies in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2025. His research interrogates the distribution of flourishing and suffering in modern societies through empirical and normative lenses.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Sociology, New York University (2017)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University (2017-2019)
Research Interests:
- Structural inequality and social policy design
- Labor dynamics and social movement mobilization
- Historical-comparative analysis of crime/punishment systems
- Computational sociology of mass incarceration
His current book projects dissect American punishment through longitudinal data on prisons and policing (with John Clegg) and challenge foundational narratives of mass incarceration (with Chris Lewis). Methodologically, he bridges advanced computational techniques with qualitative traditions, teaching quantitative methods at the graduate level while advocating for interdisciplinary rigor in social science.
Research Clusters:
- Crime and Punishment
- Inequality
- Political and Historical Sociology
Contact: ausmani@fas.harvard.edu, William James Hall, 617-384-0115
