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| Posted 11.02.05 |
Government Department Welcomes New Assistant Professor
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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.”
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Olivia Bartlett, The Wesleyan Connection
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