Ann Marie Clark

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

 

Specializations

International Relations
International Human Rights

 

Affiliation

Co-Director, Purdue Human Rights Program

 

Research Summary

My 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; how changing ideas about justice take hold in global politics. I am also interested in questions related to documentation of the records of global human rights activism, and questions related to data preservation and use.

 

Special Project

“Human Rights Texts for Digital Research: Archiving and Analyzing Amnesty International’s Historic 'Urgent Action' Bulletins at Purdue University.” Initial funding provided by an Enhancing Research in the Humanities and the Arts Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, Purdue University.  Award no. 206400.

 

Professional Leadership

Ann Marie Clark has been elected to serve on the executive committee of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) from 2023-2025 and is Vice President of the Human Rights Section for Academic Year 2024-25.

 

Internationally Recognized Research

As a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in 2021, Ann Marie 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.  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  

Clark, Ann Marie. 2018. “What Kind of Justice for Human Rights?” In Human Rights and Justice: Philosophical, Economic, and Historical Perspectives, eds. Melissa Labonte and Kurt Mills (Routledge). pp. 14-32.

Clark, Ann Marie. 2018. "Laws, Talk, and Human Rights: The Impact of Treaty Ratification, UN Criticism, and Democratic Change on Torture." Journal of Human Rights 17 (4): 418-435. doi: 10.1080/14754835.2017.1372734

Clark, Ann Marie and Kathryn Sikkink. 2013. "Information Effects and Human Rights Data: Is the Good News about Increased Human Rights Information Bad News for Human Rights Measures?" Human Rights Quarterly 35 (3): 539-568. 10.1353/hrq.2013.0046

Clark, Ann Marie. 2013. "The Normative Context of Human Rights Criticism: Treaty Ratification and U.N. Mechanisms." In The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance, eds. Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.