Katherine Copas, PhD

I am an economic sociologist interested in financial services access and affordability. My work focuses on credit unions and how they shape the broader financial environment and people’s experiences with them compared to traditional commercial banks.

I am versed in different qualitative and quantitative methods. I have used computational text analysis, event history analysis, generalized additive models, archival work, and other approaches in my work.

I’m a first generation college student from the foothills of Appalachia in southern Ohio. I received my PhD in sociology from Northwestern University.

When I’m not teaching or researching, you can find me walking my dog or biking around Indiana.