Katherine Kramer

The University of Iowa is my fourth college. I went to the University of Toledo for three years majoring in secondary education and sociology. They dropped my program during my junior year, so I transferred down to the University of Cincinnati where I found out after my third day that my program was dropped there as well. I had to decide between sociology and teaching high school. I knew I loved sociology and eventually wanted to teach at the university level, so I changed my major and took a whole ton of classes to be able to graduate in a year.

Through the sociology classes I had taken, I especially loved classes that dealt with crime and deviance. If I wanted to do anything with sociology, I knew I had to go to graduate school. I ended up at the University of South Florida in Tampa for two years getting my MA in criminology but realized that criminology as a discipline was too narrow for me. I wanted to go back to sociology and I loved statistics. That is how I ended up here at the University of Iowa.

In my spare time, I love to spend time with my husband and work on the house we just bought this summer. If I could watch people and listen to music all day every day, my life would be complete.