#  Adaner Usmani 

 

 



   ![Adander Usmani](/sites/g/files/omnuum9911/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-04/Adaner_Usmani-3000PX.jpg?itok=vmOBe7-q) 

 



 





 

Professor Usmani's research is driven by some simple questions about the distribution of flourishing and suffering in modern societies. They are also interested in the often-fraught relationship between normative commitments and empirical work. Most of Professor Usmani's ongoing work is on American mass incarceration. With John Clegg, Professor Usmani is working on a book in which they seek to explain American punishment by studying it in comparative and historical context. The book is based on a multi-year effort to collect comparative and historical data on prisons, policing, penal spending, and related series. With Chris Lewis, Professor Usmani is working on a book explaining what is wrong with mass incarceration if the standard story of its origins is false.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Current Role
    
     [Faculty Associate](/current-role/faculty-associates)