Kelly Greenhill is associate professor at Tufts University and research fellow and chair of the Conflict, Security and Public Policy Working Group at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Greenhill is author of Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs), winner of the 2011 International Studies Association's Best Book of the Year Award. She is also co-author and co-editor (with P. Andreas) of Sex, Drugs and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict (Cornell) and (with R. Art) The Use of Force, 8th ed. Greenhill's research has also appeared in a variety of other venues, including the journals International Security, Security Studies, Civil Wars, and International Migration, in media outlets such as The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and British Broadcasting Company, and in briefs prepared for the U.S. Supreme Court and other organs of the U.S. government.
She is currently completing a new monograph, a cross-national study that explores why, when, and under what conditions, contested (or "extra-factual") sources of political information — such as rumors, conspiracy theories, and myths — materially influence the development and conduct of states' foreign and defense policies.
Greenhill's research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Eisenhower Foundation, and Neubauer Foundation. Outside of academia, Greenhill has worked as a defense policy analyst for the Department of Defense and served as a consultant to other agencies of the U.S. government as well as to the Ford Foundation, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and World Bank. She also serves as associate editor of the journal Security Studies.
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