Katharine (Kate) Khanna is a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 2023 and her B.A. in Anthropology and French Studies from Brown University in 2013. Broadly, her work focuses on gender inequality, status processes, and social identity. Kate is particularly interested in the dynamic nature of gender attitudes across social contexts, which she studies using a combination of survey experiments, in-depth interviews, and survey analysis. Recent and current projects examine the durability of gender categories, the relational and intersectional nature of gender attitudes, and the social and symbolic consequences of espousing egalitarian beliefs.

Degrees

  • PhD
    Sociology, Columbia University
  • MPhil
    Sociology, Columbia University
  • MA
    Sociology, Columbia University
  • BA
    Anthropology and French Studies, Brown University
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Email
knkhanna [at] umd.edu