Political & Historical Sociology

Research Interests: Knowledge & Technology; Comparative Political Economy; Complex Systems

Zhongke Han is a doctoral student in Sociology. He studies the programmability of social life—structures and processes through which political and organizational...

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:  Political Sociology; Comparative; East Asia; Mixed Methods 

Yoojung Lee is a doctoral student in Sociology. Her research explores how identity-based perceptions interact with broader institutional, economic, and cultural dynamics to...

Research Interests: Organizations, occupations, and work; Informal networks; Cross-occupational collaborations; Skill and expertise; Labor and labor unions; The political economy of personal relationships; and Ethnography

Qianyue (Jackie) Xu (pronunciation...

Research Interests: organized labor & social movements, urban sociology, gentrification, political economy, neoliberalization, mass incarceration & police violence, historical methods, quantitative methods

Matt Carson is a PhD student in Sociology at...

Research interests: Political economy, markets and inequality, finance and financialization, quantitative methods

Nicholas (Nicc) Forster-Benson is a doctoral student in Sociology and Social Policy. Broadly, his research investigates how various market...

Research Interests: race, gender, work, social reproduction, historical sociology, black feminisms, quantitative methods

Francisca Afantchao Biakou is a PhD student in sociology and social policy, and a Presidential Scholar at Harvard University. Using...

Research Interests: political sociology, environmental sociology, cultural sociology

Samantha Wyman is a Doctoral Student in Sociology at Harvard University. During her graduate career, she is eager to explore how a community’s culture, politics, and...

Research Interests: Cultural sociology, medical sociology, experimental methods, historical methods, science communication

Sydney Sauer Sydney Sauer is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology. She studies the relationship between information and...