#  Liz McKenna 

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Affiliate of the Department of Sociology

 

 

 



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 smartphone [617-998-1938](tel:617-998-1938) 

 email <emckenna@hks.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Liz McKenna's Website](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/liz-mckenna) 

 

 



 

Liz McKenna is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at HKS. She is a political sociologist whose research focuses on how civil society can both enable and constrain democracy. She uses multiple methods—ethnographic, interview, geospatial, and social network analysis—to study organizations, political power, and social movements in Brazil and the United States.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Countries
    
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- ## Geographic Areas
    
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- ## Current People
    
     [Other Faculty](/other-faculty) [Faculty Affiliates](/people/faculty-affiliates)
- ## Research Clusters
    
     [Economic Sociology and Organizations](/research-clusters/economic-sociology-organizations) [Political and Historical Sociology](/research-clusters/political-historical-sociology)