Adaner Usmani, Ph.D.

Affiliations:	2017	Sociology	New York University, New York, NY, United States
	2019	Sociology	Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
	2017-2018	Sociology	Brown University, Providence, RI

Area:

Inequality, Social Policy, Labor and Social Movements, Crime and Punishment

Website:

http://www.adanerusmani.com/

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Bio:

Adaner Usmani is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies. His research is driven by two questions: Why do some people flourish while others suffer? And, what explains why, in some places but not others, movements or policies emerge to challenge or moderate this inequality? In one project, he explores when and why ordinary individuals manage to coordinate collective action, and how well these patterns explain the forward march of democracy and the extent of economic redistribution. In a different project, he studies the origins and consequences of American mass incarceration. Most of his work uses computational and quantitative methods, but he retains a keen interest in the comparative historical method, and in qualitative social science more generally.