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
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
"Punishment in Modern Societies: The Prevalence and Causes of Incarceration Around the World," with John Clegg, Sebastian Spitz, and Annalena Wolcke. Forthcoming in The Annual Review of Criminology.
"Abolition of What?" with Christopher Lewis. Forthcoming in The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.
"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 ] "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 ]
"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 ]
"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 "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