Cathy Buerger

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Cathy Buerger (LinkedIn) is Director of Research at the Dangerous Speech Project. Cathy Buerger joined the Dangerous Speech Project (DSP) in September of 2017. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut (UConn), where her research examined the impact of human rights education on political beliefs and behavior in Ghana.

Her current research at the DSP focuses on global responses to dangerous and hateful speech as well as the process of identity formation among those who choose to respond to such speech. She also coordinates the DSP’s fellowship programs.

Cathy is a Research Affiliate of UConn’s Economic and Social Rights Research Group, Managing Editor of the Journal of Human Rights, and an Editor for the Teaching Human Rights Database.

Articles by this author:

As family members and activists watch as people are loaded into transport vans after they were taken into custody at the offices of a homeland security contractor on June 04, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. About a dozen immigrants were taken into custody. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Unequal Before the Law: How Trump’s Death Penalty Order Codifies Dangerous Speech

Jun. 6, 2025 Cathy Buerger