Shamus Khan Explained

Shamus Khan
Birth Name:Shamus Rahman Khan
Birth Date:8 October 1978
Birth Place:New York City, United States
Nationality:American
Occupation:Sociologist, professor

Shamus Rahman Khan (born October 8, 1978) is an American sociologist. He is a professor of sociology and American studies at Princeton University. Formerly he served as chair of the sociology department at Columbia University. He writes on elites, inequality, gender/sexuality, and American culture. His work has appeared in numerous national and international media outlets.[1]

Early life

Khan was born in New York to M. Akmal Khan, a surgeon, and Maura Khan, a nurse, both immigrants from Pakistan and Ireland, respectively.[2] He has an older brother, Omar Khan, who has a PhD in political science from Oxford and was the director of the Runnymede Trust until 2020 and is currently the director of the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO).[3] [4]

Khan attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, graduating magna cum laude with distinction in math, science, music, and Latin in 1996. He won the Howe Music Prize and the Rector's Award upon graduation. He graduated in 2000 from Haverford College, and received his MS in 2006 and his PhD in 2008 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He studied with Robert M. Hauser, Erik Olin Wright, and Myra Marx Ferree. His advisor was Mustafa Emirbayer. In 2007 he began teaching at Columbia University.

Career

He has lectured and held visiting professor positions around the world.[5] In 2014 he served as Directeur d’études invité at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and the Hallsworth Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. In 2010-11 he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in the New York Public Library.[6] He is the director of the Russell Sage Foundation research network which studies the political influence of economic elites,[7] and is leading a research program that uses the archives of the New York Philharmonic to understand the long-term historical composition of classical music concert-goers.[8] He is currently the editor of Public Culture.[9]

Contributions

Khan has made contributions to the areas of inequality,[10] [11] cultural sociology,[12] research methodology,[13] [14] and most of all to the sociology of elites.[15] [16] [17] His book, Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School, was published in 2011 by Princeton University Press.[18] It won the C. Wright Mills Book Award in 2011. It was widely reviewed in both conservative and liberal circles.[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

In addition to his academic work, Khan has written extensively for the popular press. He served as a columnist for Time magazine,[25] and has written op-eds and articles for The New York Times,[26] [27] The New Yorker,[28] Al Jazeera America,[29] Public Books,[30] and Good Magazine.[31]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Media. Shamus Rahman Khan. 16 December 2014.
  2. Book: Khan, S.R.: Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School. (eBook and Paperback). 14 October 2012 . Press.princeton.edu. 9780691156231 . 16 December 2014.
  3. Web site: Runnymede Trust - Media . Runnymedetrust.org . 16 December 2014.
  4. Web site: Our team and board . 2022-05-26 . TASO . en-GB.
  5. Web site: CV. Shamus Rahman Khan. Shamuskhan.wordpress.com. 16 December 2014.
  6. Web site: The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2011-2012 Fellows. Nypl.org. 16 December 2014.
  7. Web site: The Political Influence of Economic Elites. Russellsage.org. 16 December 2014.
  8. Web site: Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics - INCITE - Subscribers to the NY Philharmonic, 1842-Present. Incite.columbia.edu. 16 December 2014.
  9. Web site: Public Culture. 27 January 2017.
  10. News: Your Money. The New York Times. 15 October 2010. 16 December 2014. Sullivan. Paul.
  11. Web site: The Political Influence of Economic Elites. Russellsage.org. 16 December 2014.
  12. Web site: Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics - INCITE - Subscribers to the NY Philharmonic, 1842-Present. Incite.columbia.edu. 16 December 2014.
  13. Web site: The Practice of Research. Global.oup.com. 16 December 2014.
  14. Web site: Talk Is Cheap. Smr.sagepub.com. 16 December 2014.
  15. News: Your Money. The New York Times. 15 October 2010. 16 December 2014. Sullivan. Paul.
  16. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145542 "The Sociology of Elites" Annual Review of Sociology
  17. Web site: The Political Influence of Economic Elites. Russellsage.org. 16 December 2014.
  18. Book: Khan, S.R.: Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School. (eBook and Paperback). 14 October 2012. Press.princeton.edu. 9780691156231. 16 December 2014.
  19. Web site: More modern and more open, but the posh are back in charge. Aditya Chakrabortty. The Guardian. February 2011. 16 December 2014.
  20. Web site: Top of the Class. The American Conservative. 13 March 2012. Theamericanconservative.com. 16 December 2014.
  21. Web site: Creating a new elite. Mike Pride. Concordmonitor.com. 16 December 2014.
  22. Web site: Elite of St. Paul's learn the lessons of privilege. BuffaloNews.com. 16 December 2014.
  23. Web site: Elite St. Paul's Students Read 'Beowulf,' Prep for Ivies: Books. Robin D. Schatz. 24 February 2011. Bloomberg.com. 16 December 2014.
  24. Web site: The. Boston.com. 16 December 2014.
  25. Web site: Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics - INCITE - Subscribers to the NY Philharmonic, 1842-Present. Incite.columbia.edu. 16 December 2014.
  26. News: The New Elitists. Shamus Khan. The New York Times. 7 July 2012. 16 December 2014.
  27. News: We Are Not All in This Together. Shamus Khan : Opinionator. The New York Times. 16 December 2014.
  28. A Better Way to Pay Workers. 17 January 2014. The New Yorker. 16 December 2014.
  29. Web site: Shamus Khan. America.aljazeera.com. 16 December 2014.
  30. Web site: Public Books — Articles by Shamus Khan. Publicbooks.org. 16 December 2014.
  31. Web site: GOOD Magazine - #shamus khan. Magazine.good.is. 16 December 2014.

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