(Sociology, May 2010)
Thesis Title: Re-making Class, Race, and Nation: Black Professionals in Brazil and South Africa
Committee: Michèle Lamont (chair), William Julius Wilson, Prudence Carter, and Edward Telles
Initial Placement: Post-doctoral Research...
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...
Research Interests: Inequality; innovation; gender; race; public policy; Latin America; economic sociology; stratification
Channing Spencer is a Doctoral Candidate in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the...
Research Interests: Cultural sociology; inequality; race and immigration; comparative sociology; the sociology of knowledge; contemporary sociological theory.
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the...
Research Interests: Social stratification and inequality, race and ethnicity, political agency, marginalization and social movements
Meylin Gonzales Huamán is a doctoral student in Sociology. She has experience with qualitative research for policy and...
Research Interests: race/ethnicity in comparative perspective, skin tone & colorism, health, race/ethnicity & technology (e.g., artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision), sociology of the body, social psychology & cognition, and...
