Kat Albrecht

Kat Albrecht is a JD/PhD Candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University, a Law and Sciences Fellow at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and a Global Impacts Fellow at the Buffett Institute. She will be moving to Atlanta in early August to begin a position as an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Kat’s work sits at the intersection of computational social science and law where she uses innovative computational techniques to study fear, violence, and data surveillance. Her work has been published in outlets like Law & Policy, Nature Human Behavior, and Law, Technology & Humans. She also organizes the yearly Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Chicago.