Nan Feng is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. She received her PhD in Sociology from Cornell University in 2024. She studies how inequality shapes and is shaped by social networks. She pursues this inquiry through three interrelated lines of research. The first line of research addresses inequality in social capital and social integration within large social collectivities. The second line of research investigates how social networks reinforce socio-economic disadvantage and the resulting impact on health. The third line of research explores the role of geographic proximity in high-stakes business relationships within America’s venture capital market.