Katherine Leu

Katherine Leu is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, as well as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.  Her research interests include higher education, social stratification, and the sociology of education; she is particularly interested in using causal inference and computational methods to study college students' pathways through educational structures and their implications for inequality in the labor market and beyond.  Prior to beginning her graduate studies, she worked as an education analyst at RTI International.  She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Chicago.