Government Department Welcomes New Assistant Professor

Olivia DrakeNovember 2, 20054min

Posted 11/02/05
Kelly Greenhill joined the Government Department as an assistant professor in July.

Greenhill’s current research focuses on non-traditional coercion, counterinsurgency operations and barriers to conflict resolution. Such research has appeared in a variety of books and journals, including Security Studies, International Migration, and Polity.

This semester, Greenhill is teaching a course on civil wars and international conflict management and another on geography and international conflict. In the spring, she will teach an introductory international relations course, as well as another that offers a more in-depth exploration of international relations theory.

“I was attracted to Wesleyan for myriad reasons, but was especially drawn by the high caliber of the student body and by the university’s clear commitment to cultivating amongst its faculty both strong teachers and scholars,” she says. “I very much look forward to becoming an integrated and engaged member of the Wesleyan community.”

Greenhill holds a bachelor’s of arts degree (double major) in political economy and Scandinavian studies from the University of California at Berkeley; a certificate of special studies in international management from Harvard University; and a master’s of science and doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In addition to her appointment at Wesleyan, Greenhill is a research fellow in the International Security and Intrastate Conflict Programs at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Her studies have been supported in part by the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Eisenhower Foundation.

Before coming to BCSIA, Greenhill held pre-doctoral fellowships at Harvard’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. She served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation and to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 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.

Greenhill’s other interests include rock climbing, hiking, skiing and kayaking. She also enjoys cooking, watching films and “reading practically anything I can get my hands on.”
 

By Olivia Drake, The Wesleyan Connection editor