Kate Albrecht, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Affiliated faculty, Government Finance Research Center and Networks and Governance Lab
Public Policy, Management and Analytics
Pronouns: She/her
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400 S. Peoria Street, Chicago IL 60607
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About
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy, Management, and Analytics at the University of Illinois Chicago. My research examines how purpose-oriented networks form, evolve, and produce outcomes across complex public service domains, with empirical attention to health service networks in Chicago and Cook County, drinking water governance across Illinois, and cross-sector collaboration in nonprofit-public partnerships.
I work primarily at the intersection of network theory, public management, and complexity science, with methodological commitments to longitudinal network analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, and inductive theory-building. My published work appears in Public Management Review, American Review of Public Administration, Public Budgeting & Finance, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and elsewhere.
Before joining UIC in 2019, I completed my Ph.D. in Public Administration at North Carolina State University. I currently teach graduate courses in qualitative research methods, regression analysis, and strategic management, as well as an undergraduate course on the role of nonprofits in U.S. civil society.
Selected Publications
Kurtz, S., Shafiq, S., & Albrecht, K. (2026). Network Embeddedness and Monitoring Mechanisms in Government-Nonprofit Public Service Delivery Agreements. The American Review of Public Administration. https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740251411848
Nowell, B., & Albrecht, K. (2024). A population ecology of network domains. Public Management Review, 26(8), 2218-2241. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2023.2182903
Albrecht, K., Carroll, D. A., Kass, A., Michnick, J., & Wetmore, B. (2024). Fiscal institutions and racial equity: Determining the price of water. Public Budgeting & Finance, 44(2), 45–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12361
Shafiq, S., Albrecht, K., & LeRoux, K. (2023). Extending the Interdependence Theory to Local Public Service Provision: Evidence from Iowa. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 14(3), 255–278. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2022-0036
Nowell, B., & Albrecht, K. (2019). A reviewer’s guide to qualitative rigor. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 29(2), 348–363. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muy052
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Research Currently in Progress
Chicago Health and Wellness Purpose-Oriented Networks - https://kanetgeek.github.io/ChiHealthPONsWeb/