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Katherine P. Hazen serves as Assistant Research Professor at Northeastern University with dual appointments in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (College of Social Sciences and Humanities) and the Department of Applied Psychology (Bouvé College of Health Sciences). She holds the position of Assistant Program Director for the Northeastern University Public Evaluation Lab, leading evaluations of justice-system interventions and professional training programs.
Her academic credentials include:
- PhD in Law-Psychology and Social and Cognitive Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2021)
- JD with constitutional law concentration, University of Nebraska College of Law (2018)
Dr. Hazen's research examines social identity dynamics within justice-system decision processes, investigating how procedural fairness influences cooperation through belonging mechanisms and how social identity moderates evaluations of decision systems. Her methodological approach integrates mixed methods including social-situational observations, survey research, qualitative interviews, focus groups, archival analysis, and experimental designs.
With over ten years of evaluation experience, she has assessed police, legal, and case management training programs alongside trauma-informed justice interventions such as specialty courts. Her prior work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center on Children, Families, and the Law involved evaluating the Nebraska Resource Project for Vulnerable Young Children and Children's Justice Programs.
As Assistant Program Director of the Public Evaluation Lab, she directs applied research projects that bridge academic theory with real-world justice and health system improvements, specializing in implementation and impact assessment of evidence-based interventions.
