Background
Khan was born in New York to immigrant parents. His mother, Mary Khan, is a nurse His father, M. Akmal Khan, is a surgeon.
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Education
He has an older brother, Omar Khan, who has a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from Oxford and is the director of the Runnymede Trust. Khan attended Saint Paul"s School in Concord, New Hampshire, graduating magna cum laude with distinction in Mathematics, Science, Music, and Latin in 1996. He graduated in 2000 from Haverford College, and received his Mississippi in 2006 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 2008 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He studied with Robert M. Hauser, Erik Olin Wright, and Myra Marx Ferree.
Career
He is an associate professor at Columbia University. He writes on elites, inequality, and American culture. His work has appeared in numerous national and international media outlets.
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 2010-2011 he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in the New York Public Library.
Achievements
Politics
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. lieutenant was widely reviewed in both conservative and liberal circles.
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Nationality
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