Shamus Khan
Khan speaks atPolitics & Prose in Washington, D.C., in January 2020
Born	Shamus Rahman Khan (1978-10-08)October 8, 1978 (age 47) New York City,United States
Occupation(s)	Sociologist, professor

Shamus Rahman Khan (born October 8, 1978) is an Americansociologist. He has been a professor of Sociology and American studies atPrinceton University since 2021. Formerly he served as chair of the sociology department atColumbia University. He writes on elites, inequality, gender/sexuality, and American culture. His work has appeared in numerous national and international media outlets.^[1]

Khan was born in New York to M. Akmal Khan, asurgeon, and Maura Khan, anurse, both immigrants fromPakistan andIreland, respectively.^[2] He has an older brother, Omar Khan, who has a PhD in political science fromOxford and was the director of theRunnymede Trust until 2020 and is currently the director of the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO).^[3][4]

Khan attendedSt. Paul's School inConcord, New Hampshire, graduatingmagna 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 fromHaverford College, and received his MS in 2006 and his PhD in 2008 from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison. He studied withRobert M. Hauser,Erik Olin Wright, andMyra Marx Ferree. His advisor wasMustafa Emirbayer. In 2007 he began teaching at Columbia University.

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

Khan has made contributions to the areas of inequality,^[10][11]cultural sociology,^[12] researchmethodology,^[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 byPrinceton University Press.^[18] It won theC. 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 forTime magazine,^[25] and has written op-eds and articles forThe New York Times,^[26][27]The New Yorker,^[28]Al Jazeera America,^[29]Public Books,^[30] andGood Magazine.^[31]

• Shamus Khan andDana Fisher (2013),The Practice of Research. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Shamus Rahman Khan (2012),Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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