Kelly M. Greenhill (born 1970) is an American
political scientist
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. She is an associate professor at
Tufts University
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and a
research fellow
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at the
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public ...
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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. She specializes in
weapons of mass migration, forced displacement, and foreign policy.
Education
She has an S.M. and a Ph.D. from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
and a B.A. in
Political Economy
Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...
and in
Scandinavian Studies from the
University of California at Berkeley
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. She also earned a C.S.S. from
Harvard University
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.
Career
She has written articles for the academic journals
International Security,
Security Studies
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, and Civil Wars, among others, as well as the
New York Times
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,
Foreign Affairs, the
Los Angeles Times
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, the
International Herald Tribune and the
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. Her Book ''Weapons of Mass Migration'' was 2011 winner of the Best Book of the Year Award of the
.
She also serves as a consultant for US governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations.