Visiting Associate Professor
Contact:
574.631.8640 | ebriant@nd.edu
Biography
Emma L. Briant, Ph.D. is a leading researcher and expert on contemporary propaganda and information warfare, and its ethics, governance and evolution in an age of mass-surveillance. Prior to joining the Lucy Family Institute as Visiting Associate Professor, at Notre Dame University in March 2025, Dr. Briant was Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia. She is a British scholar who held prior faculty roles at University of Essex, and University of Sheffield, in the UK. Dr. Briant has three books, Bad News for Refugees, (Pluto Press, with Philo and Donald, 2013), Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change (Manchester University Press, 2015), and the Routledge Handbook on the Influence Industry (Routledge, co-edited with Vian Bakir, 2024).
In addition to scholarly publications, she regularly contributes to major journalism outlets and is finalizing her next book Propaganda Machine. She was Senior Researcher for the Oscar-shortlisted documentary ‘The Great Hack’. Dr Briant is an honorary Associate at University of Cambridge’s Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability, and a Fellow at Bard College. She has also held prestigious visiting roles at Stanford University, Georgetown University, George Washington University.