Shamus Khan

Shamus Khan
Born	1978 (age 38–39) New York City, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Sociologist, professor

Shamus Khan (born 1978) is an American sociologist. He is a professor at Columbia University, where he serves as the chair of the sociology department. He writes on elites, inequality, and American culture. His work has appeared in numerous national and international media outlets.

Khan was born in New York to immigrant parents. His mother, Mary Khan, is a nurse. His father, M. Akmal Khan, is a surgeon. He has an older brother, Omar Khan, who has a PhD in Political Science from Oxford and is the director of the Runnymede Trust.

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.

He has lectured and held visiting professor positions around the world. 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. He 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. He is currently the Editor of Public Culture.

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