Hannah Castner

Research Interests: Education, cultural sociology, political sociology, stratification and inequality, computational and interview methods

Hannah Castner is a PhD student in sociology and a Presidential Scholar at Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Hannah graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College with degrees in sociology and data science. As an undergraduate, she conducted research on segregation through an REU at Texas A&M University and interned with the Data Labs team at the Pew Research Center.

As a graduate student, Hannah studies how politics and culture shape and reproduce inequality, particularly within education systems. She is interested in how parents, teachers, politicians, and administrators lay claim to education curricula and systems and the consequences of these assertions. 

Previous Degrees:
B.A. in Sociology and Data Science, Mount Holyoke College, 2022