Kat Swerbenski

Position title: Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology

Email: swerbenski@wisc.edu

Kat Swerbenski is a fourth-year Social Psychology graduate student working in both the Social Kids Lab and Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab. She is also an Interdisciplinary Training Program in the Education Sciences fellow and Madison Education Partnership intern. She studies children’s and adolescents’ peer relationships, with a focus on youth’s cross-race peer relationships. Her research also focuses on youth’s sense of belonging in school and how peer relationships can help support feelings of belonging.

IDS Affiliate Faculty Supervisors: Patricia Devine and Kristin Shutts

Research areas: Peer relationships, intergroup relationships, school belonging