Jeremiah Muhammad

Biography

Jeremiah Muhammad is a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar for the Hesburgh Center in Public Service at the University of Notre Dame. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Tennessee in 2026. Jeremiah’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of public policy and American politics, including the race and politics, political behavior, and the politics of crises. His dissertation develops a crisis driven mobilization theoretical framework, which explains how overlapping crises generate political mobilization and how institutional responses reshape future participation through backlash and adaptation. Jeremiah’s current research agenda expands this framework by examining the reciprocal relationship between crisis, election administration, and democratic responsiveness, with particular attention to Black political behavior and the public policy feedback. Prior to completing his doctorate, Jeremiah received an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Tennessee and an M.P.A. from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research has been published by the Dubois Review and has been supported by generous grants from the American Political Science Association’s Centennial Center, and the Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development (ORIED) at the University of Tennessee.