Katherine Levine Einstein is a professor at Boston University. Her research focuses on urban politics and policy, racial and ethnic politics, and American public policy. Levine Einstein serves on the editorial board of the Urban Affairs Review, and is a faculty affiliate of Boston University’s Initiative on Cities, Hariri Institute for Computing and Computation Science & Engineering, and Department of African American Studies.Levine Einstein's work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, Political Science Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review.Levine Einstein received her Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy from Harvard University. She received her B.A. from Yale University.Levine Einstein has co-authored two books, "Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in Democratic Politics," with Jennifer Hochschild, in 2015, and "Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis," with David Glick and Maxwell Palmer, in 2019.Levine Einstein is currently co-principal investigator of the Menino Survey of Mayors, a multi-year survey of U.S. mayors exploring a wide spectrum of political and policy issues.