Albertson attended Loyola Marymount University for her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1999, earning a Hansard Fellowship.
[4] She also analyzed data prior to the 2008 United States presidential election of Barack Obama with psychology professor Anthony Greenwald.
[5] Albertson spent three years at the University of Washington before moving to Texas to live with her recently tenured husband, Josh, and their son.
[6] Albertson joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor[7] but was worried about her chances at tenure during her 3rd year review.
[6] In 2014, Albertson received the Josefina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award[8] and the Society for Political Methodology's Harold F. Gosnell Prize.