Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Communications at Rutgers University
Lab Alumnus
Katherine's research areas include quantitative and computational methods, social use of technology, political communication, and mass communication.
Katherine studies the effects of social influence on civic and political behavior, confidence in institutions, information exposure/evaluation, and public opinion formation. Her methodological expertise is in computational social science, network science, and survey research. Her recent work examines the links between misinformation exposure and political trust. She is also a co-lead on The COVID States Project – a large multi-university initiative exploring the social and political implications of COVID-19.
