Katharine N. Khanna

Katharine N. Khanna

Research Interests

Bio

Kate Khanna is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. She is a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia and a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2016). Her research interests include gender, status, and social identity. Her current research uses experimental design to study gender attitudes and their intersections with race and class. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Kate worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Community Health in Boston and as a Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology at Wellesley College. She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Anthropology and French Studies, where she wrote an honors thesis on the impact of masculine norms on adolescent language use.

Education

B.A., Anthropology (with honors) & French Studies, magna cum laude, Brown University, 2013