Katherine Levine Einstein is an assistant professor of political science at Boston University and faculty fellow at Boston University's Initiative on Cities. She joined the department in 2012 after receiving her Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University and B.A. in political science from Yale University. Her research and teaching interests broadly include local politics and policy, racial and ethnic politics, and American public policy. Her first book Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in Democratic Politics (with Jennifer Hochschild, University of Oklahoma Press 2015) investigates the harmful effects of misinformation on democratic politics. Her second book Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis (with David Glick and Maxwell Palmer) explores the politics of housing development. She is currently one of the principal investigators of the Menino Survey of Mayors, a multi-year data set of survey-interviews of U.S. mayors exploring a wide variety of political and policy issues. She also serves on the editorial board of the Urban Affairs Review. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation.