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Patrick
Hamm

Patrick Hamm is a PhD Candidate in sociology at Harvard University, where he researches the effects of economic reforms in post-communist countries.

Boston, Massachusetts

A PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, Patrick Hamm is currently researching the consequences of economic reforms in former socialist societies. His dissertation investigates the changing political economy of food production in Russia and China.

Patrick Hamm attended Yale University, where he studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics. During his undergraduate years, Patrick Hamm spent two summers in China as a recipient of the Richard U. Light Fellowship for Language Study in East Asia. His senior thesis investigated the impact of market reforms on the industrial organization of several economic sectors in China. Patrick Hamm graduated cum laude from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts in 2004.

Since beginning his graduate studies at Harvard, Patrick Hamm has held three teaching assistantships and overseen four senior thesis projects in sociology and social studies. Patrick Hamm has also served as a research assistant on the Attitudes of the American Professoriate Project (Prof. Neil Gross) and the China Inequality and Distributive Justice Survey Project (Prof. Marty Whyte).

In 2006, Patrick Hamm was a summer analyst at Oxford Analytica, a consulting firm in Oxford, England, where he assisted in projects related to political risk assessment. A native of Germany, he currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


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