Political & Historical Sociology

Francisca Afantchao Biakou

Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy
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...
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Emma Bedell Bogler

Doctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Cultural sociology, social network analysis, media studies, computational text analysis, political sociology, inequality, economic sociology Emma Bedell Bogler is a PhD student in Sociology at Harvard University. Originally from...
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Matthew Brooke

Doctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Political sociology, historical sociology, social movements, political parties, media. Matthew Brooke is a Doctoral candidate in Sociology. Matthew's dissertation investigates why the Republican Party and right-wing media have become...
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Matt Carson

Doctoral Student in Sociology
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...
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Rui Chen

Doctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Political sociology, digital media, Chinese studies, computational methods\ Rui Chen is a Doctoral Student in Sociology. Rui is interested in the conceptual differences across entities, specifically the patterns of ideological...
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Marissa Combs

Doctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Education Reform, Organizational and Economic Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Accountability and Governance, Research Practice Partnerships, Research Methods Marissa Combs is a PhD student in Sociology, a PIER Fellow at the Center for...
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Clayton Covington

Doctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Organizations, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Sexuality, Social Movements, Globalization, Comparative & Historical Sociology, Law, Empire, Nationalism, Latin America and the Caribbean Clayton Covington is a PhD Student in...
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Hannah Craig

Doctoral 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...
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Jingyun Dai

Doctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: culture; class and gender inequalities; higher education; intersectionality, mixed methods Jingyun Dai is a PhD candidate in sociology. Jingyun studies cultural processes and class and gender inequalities in the context of elite higher...
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Nayun Eom

Doctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Work and organizations; Inequality and stratification; Political sociology; Care labor; Technology; Culture; Mixed methods Nayun Eom is a doctoral student in Sociology. Her research spans the sociology of politics, science and...
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Daniel Alain Evrard

Doctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Political Economy; Urban Sociology; Economic Geography; Social Impacts of Economic and Climatic Change; Poverty and Inequality; Work, Labor Markets and the Labor Process; Social Theory; Comparative Sociology. Daniel Alain Evrard is a...
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Nicholas Forster-Benson

Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy
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...
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