10 Facts About Shamus Khan

Shamus Rahman Khan was born on October 8,1978 and is an American sociologist.

Shamus Khan has been a professor of Sociology and American studies at Princeton University since 2021.

Shamus Khan's work has appeared in numerous national and international media outlets.

Shamus Khan 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.

Shamus Khan won the Howe Music Prize and the Rector's Award upon graduation.

Shamus Khan studied with Robert M Hauser, Erik Olin Wright, and Myra Marx Ferree.

Shamus Khan has lectured and held visiting professor positions around the world.

Shamus Khan is the director of the Russell Sage Foundation research network which studies the political influence of economic elites, 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.

Shamus Khan has made contributions to the areas of inequality, cultural sociology, research methodology, and most of all to the sociology of elites.

Shamus Khan served as a columnist for Time magazine, and has written op-eds and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Al Jazeera America, Public Books, and Good Magazine.