Kate  Khanna

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 2023 and completed a President's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Maryland in 2025.

Broadly, my work focuses on gender inequality, status processes, and social identity. I am particularly interested in the dynamic nature of gender attitudes across social contexts, which I study 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.