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  [### Matt Carson

 ](/people/matt-carson) <mattcarson@g.harvard.edu>Doctoral Student in Sociology

 

 

 Research Interests: organized labor &amp; social movements, urban sociology, gentrification, political economy, neoliberalization, mass incarceration &amp; police violence, historical methods, quantitative methods Matt Carson is a PhD student in Sociology at... 

 

 

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   [### Evan Cliff MacKay

 ](/people/evan-cliff-mackay) <emackay@fas.harvard.edu>Doctoral Student in Sociology &amp; Social Policy

 

 

 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... 

 

 

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   [### Dylan Nguyen

 ](/people/dylan-nguyen) <dnguyen@hks.harvard.edu>Doctoral Student in Sociology &amp; Social Policy

 

 

 Research Interests: Spatial Inequality, Urban &amp; Community Sociology, Organizations, Race and Ethnicity, Housing, Inequality &amp; Stratification Dylan Nguyen is a doctoral student in Sociology and Social Policy. Broadly interested in spatial inequality, their... 

 

 

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   [### L. Ash Smith

 ](/people/l-ash-smith)Doctoral Student in Sociology

 

 

 Ash Smith is a doctoral student in Sociology, with a J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

 

 

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   [### Sebastian Spitz

 ](/people/sebastian-spitz) <sspitz@g.harvard.edu>Doctoral Student in Sociology

 

 

 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... 

 

 

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   [### Michael Zanger-Tishler

 ](/people/michael-zanger-tishler) [michael\_zangertishler@g.harvard.edu](mailto:michael_zangertishler@g.harvard.edu)Doctoral Student in Sociology &amp; Social Policy

 

 

 (Sociology &amp; 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... 

 

 

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