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KATIE KRUMBHOLZ, Ph.D.

Education

Rutgers University

Ph.D., Political Science, 2025

M.A., Political Science, 2021

Dissertation: "Carceral Identity and its Influence on Political Attitudes and Behavior"

Dissertation committee: Katherine T. McCabe (chair), Richard R, Lau, Lisa L. Miller, and Hannah L. Walker (University of Texas, Austin)

Major subfield: American Politics

Minor subfields: Public Law / Methods

Iowa State University of Science and Technology

M.A., Political Science, 2019

Thesis: “Felon Disenfranchisement and Political Culture”

Thesis Advisor: David Andersen

Public Policy Emphasis

University of Iowa

B.A., Political Science, 2017

International Relations emphasis

Research Interests

Political behavior, public opinion, criminal justice policy, privacy, and surveillance by public and private actors

Journal Publications

“What Does Politics & Gender Publish? Trends, Methods, and Topics in Gender and Politics Research.” (with Carolyn Barnett, Michael Fitzgerald, and Manika Lamba), Politics & Gender, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2025, pp. 6-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X24000540.

“Tracking the Trackers: 'Menstruapp Privacy Policies Following the Dobbs Decision.” (with Kyle Morgan and Alice Militaru), Journal of Women, Politics & Policy (2024), 45(1), p. 167-189. DOI: 10.1080/1554477X.2024.2300103.

"Strange, Unusual, and Creative Sentences: Analyzing “Outside the Box” Criminal Sentencing." (with Milton Heumann, Kyle J. Morgan, Alice Militaru & Lance Cassak),  Victims & Offenders, 18:8 (2023), pp. 1446-1473. DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2023.2249877  

“Gender in the Journals: A Dataset of Gender and Politics Research.” (with Carolyn Barnett, Michael Fitzgerald, and Manika Lamba), PS: Political Science and Politics 55, no. 3 (2022), pp. 511-518. DOI: 10.1017/S1049096522000385. 

Searchable dataset can be accessed via the project website: https://gender-politics.shinyapps.io/apps/.

Under Review

“Trust us, this is for your own good: Rethinking Americans' Attitudes Towards Privacy, Big Tech, and The Exchange Model.” (with Milton Heumann, Kyle Morgan, Lance Cassak, Alice Militaru, and Lauren Johnson)

“Women or Fetuses First? An experimental study of the effectiveness of the “pro-woman” frame of the pro-life movement.” (with Amanda Roberti and Kyle Morgan)

Manuscripts in Progress

“Carceral Identity: The Missing Link Between Carceral Experiences and Political Behavior.”

Are you seeing this? A Conjoint Experiment on Americans' Attitudes Towards Surveillance.” (with Milton Heumann, Kyle Morgan, Lance Cassak, Alice Militaru, and Lauren Johnson)

“Gendered Consequences of Contact with the Carceral State.” (with Amy Benner)

Conference Presentations

American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference (Philadelphia, PA 2023)

  • “Would a Cell by Any Other Mode Work as Well? Implementing Text-to-Web in Representative Dual-Frame Surveys”

  • “Hard to Reach But Not Hard to Survey - by Text”

American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference (Atlanta, GA 2024)

  • “Ostriches or Meerkats? Analyzing Attitudes Towards Privacy”

  • “Panels, SMS, and RDD, Oh My! a Tri-Mode Statewide Polling Experiment between the Rutgers-Eagleton/SSRS Garden State Probability Panel, Texting, and RDD”

International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting (Athens, Greece 2022)

  • "Gendered Consequences of the Carceral State"

Justice & Injustice Conference

  • "Criminal Justice Contact: Changing Criminal Justice Policy Preferences." (Seattle, WA 2021)

  • "Carceral Identity: Criminal Justice Experience and Social Identity." (New Brunswick, NJ 2023)​

Law and Society Association Global Meeting (Lisbon, Portugal 2022)

  • "Strange Sentences, Unusual Sentences, Creative Sentences: Evolution of Inquiry into 'Out of the Proverbial Box' Criminal Sentencing"

Law and Society Association Global Meeting (San Juan, Puerto Rico 2023)

  • “Period Tracker Apps and Digital Privacy Following the Dobbs Decision”

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference (Chicago, IL 2022)

  • "Criminal Justice Contact: Changing Criminal Justice Policy Preferences"

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference (Chicago, IL 2023)

  • “Carceral Identity: Criminal Justice Experience and Social Identity”

  • "Gendered Consequences of the Carceral State"

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference (Chicago, IL 2024)

  • “Carceral Identity: Criminal Justice Experience and Social Identity”

Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference (New Orleans, LA 2024)

  • “Carceral Identity: Criminal Justice Experience and Social Identity”

  • “Ostriches or Meerkats? Analyzing Attitudes Towards Privacy”

RiseUp Higher Education in Prison Conference (Virtual 2023)

  • “Carceral Identity and its Influence on Political Attitudes”

Honors and Awards

University and Louis Bevier Fellowship, 2023

The Rutgers School of Graduate Studies’ University & Bevier Dissertation Completion Fellowship is designed to provide support during a doctoral candidate’s final year of dissertation work. The award is intended to support completion and recognize excellence. SGS awards 15 University and Louis Bevier Dissertation Completion Fellowships each academic year.

Eagleton Fellowship Program - Class of 2024

The Eagleton Fellowship offers Rutgers graduate students the opportunity to further their understanding of government, public affairs, and the real-world practice of politics. During the fellowship, students make connections between their Eagleton coursework, government internship experience, and their chosen fields of study.

Stanley H. and Claire A. Friedelbaum Graduate Student Fund Award, 2021, 2022, & 2023

The fund supports full-time doctoral students with a concentration in Public Law. Two awards given each year to fund dissertation research, second year conference papers, or attendance at annual meetings of Law and Society Association or Annual American Association of Law Schools conference.

Kneller Fellowship, 2022 & 2023

Awarded for research conducted on unusual sentencing within the criminal justice system.

Janet Box-Steffensmeier Scholarship, Society for Political Methodology, 2020

Awarded to encourage women graduate students in political science to attend the ICPSR Summer Program. The scholarship is awarded to up to three women graduate students in Ph.D. programs.

Dr. Yong S. Lee Excellence in Public Management Award, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, 2019

Two awards are given each year to students in the Public Policy and Management Program pursuing his/her master’s degree. Faculty instructors select the “best in class” based on students’ papers from their respective courses. Recipients are selected based on how many “best in class” papers he or she submits in one academic year.

Teaching Experience

Rutgers University

Instructor

  • Undergraduate Courses

    • Law and Politics (Summer ‘22, Summer ‘23, Fall ‘23, Spring ‘24, Summer ‘24)

    • Political Participation of Carceral Citizens (Spring ‘24, Fall ‘24, Spring ‘25)

Teaching Assistant

  • Undergraduate Courses

    • Law and Politics (Fall ’21, Spring ’22, Fall ‘22, Spring ‘23)

    • Politics of Criminal Justice (Fall ’21, Fall ‘22, Fall ‘23)

    • Politics of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (Spring ’22, Spring ‘23, Spring ‘24)

  • Graduate Courses

    • Multivariate Statistical Techniques (Fall ‘22, Fall ‘23)

Summer Institute for Computational Social Science

Teaching Assistant (June ’21)

ICPSR Summer Program

Teaching Assistant

  • Mathematics for Social Scientists I (Session I, ’21)

Non-Teaching Employment

Rutgers University

YouGov (4/2024 - present)

  • Collaborating with clients on questionnaire development

  • Coordinating with operations team to program and test surveys

  • Coordinating with panel to field, ensuring proper distributions of sampling frame

  • Coordinating with analytics team on weighting and matching data

  • Prepping final client deliverables

Research Assistant at Eagleton Institute of Politics (4/2022 - present)

  • Data cleaning, coding, and analyses

  • Develop question batteries for surveys conducted by the polling center

Graduate Assistant to Milton Heumann (Fall ’21, Spring ’22, Fall ’22, Spring ’23, Fall ’23, Spring ’24)

  • Organize and maintain all class websites

  • Respond to student inquiries

  • Coordinate public law related events for the Political Science department

Graduate Assistant to Justice & Injustice Conference (4/2023 to 11/2023)

  • Coordinate conference space and room block with local hotel

  • Coordinate travel via Rutgers travel agency for attendees

  • Facilitate receipt of funds from donor to the University

  • Organize poster presentation/happy hour at local restaurant with dinner to follow

Graduate Assistant for Lloyd C. Gardner Fellowship (Fall ’21, Spring ’22, Fall ’22)

  • Organize and maintain related course website

  • Coordinate multiple events including dinners, a policy conference, and two off-campus trips for the Fellows, one day trip and one overnight

  • Coordinate the application process for the upcoming cohort including developing and monitoring a Qualtrics survey, compiling the incoming application materials for the reviewers, and scheduling interviews

Research Assistant to Katherine McCabe (Summer ’20, Summer ’23)

  • Data cleaning and coding

  • Experimental research design

Professional Service

Pre-law advising

Conference Discussant: MPSA (’22)

Professional Affiliations

American Association for Public Opinion Research

American Political Science Association

International Society of Political Psychology

Law and Society Association

Midwest Political Science Association

Southern Political Science Association

Methods Training

Ordinary Least Squares Regression, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Conjoint Analysis, Network Analysis, Text Analysis, Topic Modeling

Technical Skills

Statistical Packages: SPSS, R

Applications: Qualtrics, LaTeX, Microsoft Office, Google Analytics

Wilmington, NC 28412

kmkrumbholz@gmail.com

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