Amy Brooke Grauley

Amy Brooke Grauley is a third year Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in American Politics and Methodology. She focuses on questions of political identity, partisanship, and democratic commitments, often viewed through the lens of religion. Her dissertation, Faith in Democracy? How Christian Identity Shapes Democratic Commitments, investigates why some Christian groups in the United States have turned away from supporting democratic norms while others remain committed, showing how identity, institutions, and perceptions of threat shape religion’s impact on democracy. Beyond this project, she explores questions of political communication, partisan polarization, and electoral rhetoric through survey experiments and text analysis.

Before coming to Notre Dame, Amy Brooke earned her B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Sociology from Baylor University, where she was part of the Honors College and served as Head Peer Instructor in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. She also worked in Washington, D.C. as a Research Associate, gaining experience in higher education data and survey research.