Shamus Khan is the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School.
Shamus Khan teaches in the sociology department at Columbia University. He writes on elites and inequality in America. His book, Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.
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