Brianna DeMuth

Areas of Interest: international human rights, protest waves, quantitative approaches to IR, environmental politics and policy

Brianna DeMuth is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include international human rights law, conflict and protest waves, methodological approaches to IR, and environmental politics and policy. Brianna’s work and research are centered around questions of backsliding and repressive behaviors of regional and international institutions and key actors that block democratic development and cooperation. Before graduate school, Brianna worked as a research assistant at Ohio Wesleyan University, helping to collect secondary data on protest waves, and another project conducting a survey experiment to research authoritarian attitudes and human rights responses to crises. Brianna was also a Big Ten Academic Alliance SROP scholar at the University of Iowa, working closely to analyze human trafficking data and transnational advocacy networks. She hopes these experiences will contribute significantly to her dissertation proposal process. Brianna received her BA in Politics and Government, and Environmental Studies from Ohio Wesleyan University in the spring of 2023. She graduated with departmental distinction in both fields Magna Cum Laude and recently received the 2023-2024 APSA Diversity Fellowship award.