Department of Sociology 640 William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 ausmani [at] fas.harvard.edu
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies, 2019- Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2019 Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Brown University
EDUCATION
Ph.D. New York University, Sociology, 2017 Essays on The Rise and Fall of Labor Committee: Vivek Chibber (chair), Patrick Sharkey, Jeff Goodwin Readers: Mike Hout, Paul DiMaggio
M.A. New York University, Sociology, 2012
B.A. Harvard University, Social Studies 2008, magna cum laude Phi Beta Kappa
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labor and Social Movements Crime and Incarceration Quantitative and Computational Methods
PAPERS
"Democracy and the Class Struggle". American Journal of Sociology 124(3): 664-704 (November 2018) Honorable Mention, Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award [ published version | pre-print | appendix | replication code ] "The Long March to Democracy: Contentious Mobilization and Deep Democracy", with Mohammad Ali Kadivar and Benjamin H. Bradlow. Forthcoming at Social Forces [ published version | pre-print | replication code ]
"Humans in the Loop: Priors and Missingness on the Road to Prediction", with Anna Filippova, Connor Gilroy, Ridhi Kashyap, Antije Kirchner, Allie Morgan, Kivan Polimis, and Tong Wang. Forthcoming at Socius. [ replication code ]
DRAFTS "The Rise and Fall of Labor"
"The Racial Politics of the Punitive Turn", with John Clegg.
"Job Loss and Incarceration: Local Effects of a Natural Experiment", with John Clegg and Jacob Kang-Brown.
IN PREPARATION
"The Racial Gap During the Punitive Turn" [ abstract ]
"The Labor Market Consequences of Mass Incarceration", with John Clegg and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa [ abstract ]
"Mobilization and the Masses: The Impact of Protest on Public Opinion", with Mohammad Ali Kadivar [ abstract ]
"The Origins of American Mass Incarceration", with John Clegg [ abstract ]
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
"Did Liberals Give Us Mass Incarceration?" Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy Issue 3 (2017)
"Social Movements", with Jeff Goodwin, in American Governance, edited by Stephen Schechter, Thomas S. Vontz, Thomas A. Birkland, Mark A. Graber, and John J. Patrick. Vol. 5. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2016. pp. 76-80.
"The Abject Condition of Labor in Pakistan", with Kamal A. Munir and Natalya Naqvi. International Labor and Working-Class History Vol 87 (Spring 2015), pp. 174-183 "The Indian State and the Capitalist Class", with Vivek Chibber, in The Routledge Handbook on Indian Politics, edited by Atul Kohli and Prerna Singh. London: Routledge, 2013
AWARDS
2016 Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, New York University 2016 Honorable Mention for the Reinhard Bendix Best Student Paper Award of the Comparative Historical Sociology Section of the ASA 2009 MacCracken Fellow, New York University 2008 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha Iota of Massachusetts) 2008 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, Harvard University
PRESENTATIONS
"Job Loss and Incarceration: Local Effects of a Natural Experiment," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 2018
"The Long March to Democracy," Mini-Conference of the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, University of Pennsylvania, Chicago, August 2018
"The Rise and Fall of Labor," Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Montreal, November 2017
"The Racial Gap During the Punitive Turn," Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Montreal, November 2017
"The Rise and Fall of Labor," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2017
"The Racial Politics of Mass Incarceration," Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, February 2017
"Development and Its Discontents," Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2016
"The Racial Politics of Mass Incarceration," Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2016
"Democracy and the Class Struggle," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, August 2016
"The Racial Politics of Mass Incarceration," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, August 2016
"Democracy and the Class Struggle," Mini-Conference of the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, Northwestern University, Chicago, August 2015
"The Death of the Strike," Historical Materialism Conference, New York University, New York, April 2015
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2018 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at New York University, Summer 2018
Brown University 2018 Crime and Punishment in the United States, Fall 2018 2018 Crime and Punishment in the United States, Spring 2018
New York University 2016 Introduction to Statistics and Math Refresher, with Siwei Cheng, Ph.D. course, Fall 2016 2015 Introduction to Statistics and Math Refresher, with Patrick Sharkey, Ph.D. course, Fall 2014 2014 Urban Sociology, with Patrick Sharkey, Fall 2014 Social Change in America, with Michael Hout, Spring 2014 2013 Introduction to Sociology, with Juan Corradi, Fall 2013 Social Movements, with Jeff Goodwin, Spring 2013 2012 American Capitalism, with Vivek Chibber, Fall 2012 Antiquity and the 19th century, with Juan Corradi, Spring 2012 2011 Introduction to Sociology, with Richard Arum, Fall 2011 2010 Introduction to Sociology, with Richard Arum, Fall 2010
COMPUTATIONAL AND QUANTITATIVE TRAINING
Extensive experience in R and STATA, capability in Python
RSF Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (2017) Digital Trace Data Automated Text Analysis Surveys in the Digital Age Mass Collaboration Online Experiments ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods (2014) Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data Survival Analysis Causal Inference Linear Algebra R Programming
Verified Coursera Certificates, JHU Data Science Specialization R Programming Getting and Cleaning Data Statistical Inference Regression Models Machine Learning
LANGUAGES
English (native), Urdu (native), Spanish (advanced)
REFERENCES
Vivek Chibber Department of Sociology New York University 295 Lafayette Street vivek.chibber@nyu.edu
Patrick Sharkey Department of Sociology New York University 295 Lafayette Street pts1@nyu.edu
Jeff Goodwin Department of Sociology New York University 295 Lafayette Street jeff.goodwin@nyu.edu