Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.
My research focuses on the internal politics of armed organizations, both state militaries and non-state armed groups, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. I use a wide variety of research methods: field experiments, lab-in-the-field experiments, formal models, large-N quantitative analysis, and in-depth qualitative interviews. My work has been published in American Journal of Political Science, Security Studies, International Peacekeeping, and Journal of Experimental Political Science.
Prior to Wesleyan, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Naval War College and the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth. I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in May 2019. I also hold a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and an M.A. and M.Phil. from Columbia. Please contact me at krhanson@wesleyan.edu.
Kolby Hanson 