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
"The Racial Politics of Mass Incarceration", with John Clegg. Forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.
"The Libertarian Case Against Property", with Christopher Lewis. Forthcoming in Law and Philosophy.
"The Pitfalls of Presentism: For the Comparative-Historical Study of Mass Incarceration", with John Clegg and Sebastian Spitz. Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative and Historical Sociology.
"The Currency of Racial Justice", with Christopher Lewis. Legal Theory 30 (4): 229-254 (2024). [ published version ] [ replication code ]
"Abolition of What?" with Christopher Lewis. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 114 (3): 525-578 (2024). [ published version ] [ replication code ]
"How Segregation Ruins Inference: A Sociological Simulation of the Inequality Equilibrium", with Jonathan Mijs. Social Forces 103 (1): 45-65 (2024) [ published version | replication code ]
"Punishment in Modern Societies: The Prevalence and Causes of Incarceration Around the World," with John Clegg, Sebastian Spitz, and Annalena Wolcke. The Annual Review of Criminology 7: 211-231 (2024). [ published version ]
"Labor Markets and Incarceration: The China Shock to American Punishment", with John Clegg. Criminology 61: 957-993 (2023) [ published version | replication code ]
"The Class Path to Racial Liberation," with Dave Zachariah. Catalyst 5(3): 51-88 (Fall 2021) [ published version | replication code ]
"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 ]
WORKING PAPERS "The Elastic Commonsense of American Punitiveness", with Rebecca Goldstein and Andrew Keefe
"The Morality of Sociology"
"The Rise and Fall of Labor"
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
"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 ]
"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 ]
"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