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Ann Marie Clark

Research Focus

International Relations, Human Rights, International Norms, NGOs

Curriculum vitae

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Office and Contact

Email: clarkam@purdue.edu

Ph.D. University of Minnesota
M.A. Essex University (U.K.)
B.A. with honors, Earlham College

 

Specializations

International Relations
International Human Rights

 

Research Summary

Ann Marie Clark's research interests include: norms and discourse in international relations; international human rights in theory and practice; the influence of non­-governmental organizations on state behavior; global justice; and how changing ideas about justice take hold in global politics. She is also interested in the documentation of global human rights activism and questions related to data preservation and use.

  

Professional Leadership

Prof Clark served as President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2025-26.

 

Internationally Recognized Research

In 2025 Prof. Clark was chosen as Distinguished Human Rights Scholar by the Human Rights Section of the International Studies Association.

As a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in 2021, Prof. Clark held the position of Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Ottawa.  She is currently part of a collaborative book project sponsored by the Freie Universität Berlin’s SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence. 


Selected Publications

Clark, Ann Marie, and Janika Spannagel. Forthcoming. “Agency, Rights, and Recognition: Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Its Implication for the Global South and Liberal Values.” In Contesting Universal Human Rights: The Liberal Script and Its Many Authors eds. Tobias Berger, Anna Holzschiter, Thomas Risse, and Michele Tedeschini. Oxford University Press.

Clark, Ann Marie.  2022.  Demands of Justice: The Creation of a Global Human Rights Practice.  Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Ramcharan, Bertrand, Rachel Brett, Ann Marie Clark, and Penny Parker, eds..  2023.  The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs. Leiden: Brill, International Studies in Human Rights, vol. 140.  

Clark, Ann Marie and Bi Zhao (2020). "Who Did What for Whom? Amnesty International’s Urgent Actions as Activist-Generated Data." Journal of Human Rights. Special issue on human rights measurement. https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2019.1671177