Emma Zurek

*Note: This is the bio that was used on the Lab’s site during the assistantship (Summer 2022). There may be newer versions available.

Emma Zurek is entering her junior year at Notre Dame, majoring in psychology with minors in Constitutional studies and sociology. Zurek is particularly interested in studying the criminal justice system and understanding inequalities present in our current system, with hopes to use the information to aid her future career in law. Apart from research, she is a part of several clubs at Notre Dame and serves on the boards of the Psychology Club and Active Minds Notre Dame.

Zurek is working with Simone Zhang, assistant professor of sociology, on a project investigating how institutional uses of predictive tools that make inferences about people’s future behavior shape people’s attitudes about those institutions and people’s future behavior in turn.