Crime & Punishment
Bernadette Blashill
bblashill@g.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Care and Caregiving, Cultural and Political Sociology, Law and Society, Mental Health, Social Policy Bernadette Blashill is a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard University. Her research investigates why and how people care for...
Hannah Craig
hcraig@g.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Crime and Punishment, Political Sociology, Organizational Efficiency, Bureaucratic Discretion, Public Policy, Public Opinion Hannah Craig is a PhD student in Sociology at Harvard. Originally from the metro Detroit area, she received...
Kseniya Dzhala
kdzhala@g.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy
Research Interests: Housing, Culture, Social Movements, Social Policy, Relational Inequality, Qualitative Methods Kseniya Dzhala is a doctoral student in Sociology and Social Policy and a Stone PhD Scholar. She received her Bachelor's degree in Sociology...
Alexandra Gibbons
agibbons@g.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Crime and Punishment; Community and Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Immigration; Class; Inequality; Quantitative Methods Alexandra (Alex) Gibbons is a PhD student in Sociology and a Presidential Scholar in the Graduate School of...
GeorgePatrick (George) J. Hutchins
georgepatrick_hutchins@hms.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Crime, incarceration, carceral logic, racial inequity, health and society, medicine, mixed-methods GeorgePatrick (George) Hutchins (he/him) is a Doctoral Student in Sociology and MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School. He graduated...
Andrew Byrne Keefe
akeefe@jd22.law.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy
Research Interests: Inequality; Sociology of Punishment; Criminal Law and Procedure; Political Economy; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Social Theory. Andrew Keefe is a PhD candidate in sociology and social policy and a third-year law student at Harvard...
Evan Cliff MacKay
emackay@fas.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy
Research Interests: Inequality and Social Policy; Civic participation and good government; Crime, deviance, restoration, and punishment; Social stratification; Race and Ethnicity; Gender; Discrimination; Geography; Poverty; Quantitative Methods Evan...
Claudia Nmai
cnmai@g.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Crime and Punishment; Law; Culture; Social Stratification and Inequality; Socialization; Race and Ethnicity; Immigration; Qualitative Methods Claudia Nmai is a PhD student in Sociology. Broadly, she is interested in the criminal legal...
Saúl Ramírez
Doctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Crime and Punishment; Immigration; Inequality and Stratification; Poverty; Qualitative Methods; Race and Ethnicity; Social Policy; Sociology of Law Saúl Ramírez is a PhD student in Sociology. He graduated with a B.A. from the...
L. Ash Smith
Doctoral Student in Sociology
Ash Smith is a doctoral student in Sociology, with a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Sebastian Spitz
sspitz@g.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Crime and punishment, quantitative methods, comparative sociology, sociology of law, race Sebastian Spitz is a PhD student in Sociology. He graduated from Bard College in 2017 with a degree in sociology, writing his senior project on...
Michael Zanger-Tishler
michael_zangertishler@g.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy
(Sociology & Social Policy) Ph.D. Date: Spring 2026 (Expected) Dissertation Title: Data and Knowledge of the Criminal Legal System in a Comparative Perspective Dissertation Committee: Robert Sampson and Ellis Monk (Co-Chairs); Joscha Legewie, Magda...
