Assistant Professor
College of Letters & Science | Department of Sociology
I’m an Assistant Professor in Sociology at UW-Madison. I study patterns of child welfare system contact and the politics of privacy and personal data in the Information Age.
Talk can also be offered in German.
Talks:
Technological innovations in public administration: the case of risk scoring
Government agencies increasingly rely on various algorithmic and machine learning tools to support consequential decision-making in the welfare system or the criminal justice system. But how do those tools impact race and class disproportionalities in state contact? And how are they actually being used by frontline workers?