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...
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...
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...
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 her...
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 from...
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 one...
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...
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...
(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 Boutros...
Research Interests: Criminal justice policy, policing, quantitative methods
Nefara Riesch is a PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy. Her work examines policing and criminal legal system policy. Prior to her doctoral studies, Nefara worked in...
