Kelly M. Greenhill

Kelly M. Greenhill is an Assistant Professor at Tufts University and a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She has previous held teaching appointments at Wesleyan, Stanford and Columbia, and pre- and/or post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and Belfer Center, and at Stanford's Center for Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Much of Greenhill’s research focuses on what are frequently called "new security challenges," including civil wars; the use of forced migration as a political and military weapon; military intervention; (counter-)insurgency; and international criminal activities. Greenhill holds an S.M. and a Ph.D. in political science from MIT, a C.S.S. in International Management from Harvard, and a B.A. (with highest honors) in Political Economy and in Scandinavian Studies (double major) from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work has appeared in a variety of venues, including the journals International Security, Security Studies, and International Migration as well as in the New York Times and in briefs prepared for the U.S. Supreme Court. She has two books forthcoming with Cornell University Press, one which focuses on the use of large-scale population movements as non-military instruments of coercion and one (co-edited with Peter Andreas) which examines the politics of numbers in transnational crime and conflict. Greenhill's research has been supported in part by the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Eisenhower Foundation. Outside of academia, she has served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation and to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as a defense program analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, and as an economic policy intern in the Office of Senator John F. Kerry.