CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Sociology
640 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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​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

M.A.   New York University, Sociology, 2012

B.A.    Harvard University, Social Studies
           2008, magna cum laude
           Phi Beta Kappa

BOOKS (in progress) 

From Plantation to Prison, with John Clegg (under contract with Harvard University Press)

What's Wrong with Mass Incarceration, with Christopher Lewis

PAPERS

"The Injustice of Underpolicing in America," with Christopher Lewis. The American Journal of Law and Equality 2: 85-106 (2022)
       [ published version | replication code | reply to Karakatsanis ]

"The Class Path to Racial Liberation," with Dave Zachariah. Catalyst 5(3): 51-88 (Fall 2021)
        [ published version | replication code ]

"Measuring the Predictability of Life Outcomes with a Scientific Mass Collaboration," with 110 others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (15): 8398-8403 (March 2020)
         [ published version ]
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"The Long March to Democracy: Contentious Mobilization and Deep Democracy", with Mohammad Ali Kadivar and Benjamin H. Bradlow. Social Forces 98 (3):1311-1338 (March 2020)
          [ published version | replication code ]

"The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration," with John Clegg. Catalyst 3 (3): 9-53 (Fall 2019)
          [ published version | reply to Norton and Stein ]

"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. Socius 5:1-15 (September 2019).
        [ replication code ]

"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 ]

WORKING PAPERS
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"The Currency of Racial Justice", with Christopher Lewis

"Abolition of What?", with Christopher Lewis

"Segregated Social Worlds Reduce Demand for Economic and Racial Equality", with Jonathan Mijs

"The Rise and Fall of Labor"

"The Fortunes of Labor: Bringing Capitalism Back In"

"The Racial Politics of the Punitive Turn", with John Clegg

"Job Loss and Incarceration: Local Effects of a Natural Experiment", with John Clegg

"The Pitfalls of Presentism: The Case for Comparative-Historical Study of Mass Incarceration", with John Clegg and Sebastian Spitz
 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Did Liberals Give Us Mass Incarceration?" Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy Issue 3 (2017)
       [ published version ]

"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
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"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