Concentration Advisors are Sociology PhD students assigned to the Houses as either a resident or non-resident tutor. They are available to talk with sophomores, juniors, and seniors about the concentration, and may release the electronic advising hold for course enrollment after having an advising conversation. If you'd like to learn more about the discipline, hear about research in the department, or have questions about Sociology courses, reach out to your Concentration Advisor to schedule an appointment.
Aaron Benavidez - Eliot, Lowell, Winthrop
Email: benavidez@fas.harvard.edu
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Aaron Brennen Benavidez is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research examines institutional and city-level factors shaping community college persistence, trajectory, and completion. Dedicated to undergraduate education, Aaron won the 2018 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates, given once each academic year to the five most outstanding doctoral instructors throughout the university.
Andrew Keefe - Dunster, Kirkland, Mather
Email: andrew_keefe@g.harvard.edu
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Andrew Keefe is a PhD candidate in sociology and social policy and a third-year law student at Harvard Law School. His research uses mixed and historical methods to examine how people charged with crimes experience policing, criminal court, and prison and how their experiences have varied by race and class, across place, and over time.
Evan MacKay - Cabot, Currier, Pfoho
Email: emackay@fas.harvard.edu
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Evan Cliff MacKay (they/them); residential tutor in Currier house. Evan is a Doctoral Student in Sociology and Social Policy. Their research interests cover ballot referenda and direct democracy, post-incarceration, wealth inequality, and youth participation in local and state politics. Evan is a former concentrator in sociology from their time as an undergrad at Harvard College.
Yinan Wang - Adams, Leverett, Quincy
Email: yinanwang@g.harvard.edu
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Yinan Wang is a G4 in Sociology. She is broadly interested in how social institutions interact to create labor market inequalities and stratifications along axes of gender, class, and race using mixed methods. Her current work explores how perceptions of mixed institutional signals shape one’s labor market outcomes.