Kelly M. Greenhill Session Overview

Director, MIT Seminar XXI Program
Associate Professor of International Relations and Security Studies, Tufts University
Resident Senior Research Fellow and visiting professor, MIT

KELLY M. GREENHILL is the Director of Seminar XXI; a faculty member at Tufts University and at MIT; and a Senior Research Fellow at MIT and at the Niskanen Center. Greenhill has thus far published four books, including the award-winning Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy (2ndedition forthcoming). Greenhill is currently revising another book project, which explores the influence of rumors, conspiracy theories and other forms of “extra-factual” information on foreign and defense policy formulation and implementation. Greenhill is also architect and co-creator of the “Geopolitics of Forced Migration” dataset project. Outside of academia, she has consulted for the UN, UNHCR, NATO, the World Bank and other international organizations.

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