Katy Habr

Katy Habr is a Ph.D. student and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Sociology Department at Columbia University. She is a fellow at the INCITE Labor Lab and the Columbia Center for Political Economy and part of the Worker Empowerment Research Network.

Katy focuses on labor and political economy. Her research interests include precarious work, the gig economy, underemployment, labor organizing, and political education. She uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study changes in the nature of employment and strategies for building worker power. Her dissertation focuses on the political economy of the post COVID-19 workplace and labor market, seeking to delve beneath the tight labor market metrics and examine granular trends in staffing, scheduling, and turnover. 

Katy graduated from Cornell University in 2018 as a Hunter R. Rawlings III Presidential Research Scholar with a B.S. with Honors in Industrial and Labor Relations. Before coming to Columbia University, Katy was a researcher for the United Steelworkers Union in Pittsburgh.

B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations with Honors, Cornell University 2018