Kat Albrecht

Kat Albrecht is an Assistant Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and a Judicial Innovation Fellow at Georgetown Law School. She is a legally trained sociologist and computational social scientist studying how complex data can inform policy, with particular emphasis on the nexus of fear, criminal data, and the law. She received her PhD and JD from Northwestern University. Her research has been recently published or if forthcoming in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Nature Human Behavior, among others. Her horror specialities are low-budget, no-budget, and practical special effects horror.