Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.

My research focuses on the internal politics of armed organizations, civil-military relations, and migration, particularly in South 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 book, Ordinary Rebels: Rank-and-File Militants between War and Peace, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2025. My articles have been published or is forthcoming in American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, World Politics, Security Studies, Political Science Research & Methods, 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 and my B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University. Please contact me at krhanson@wesleyan.edu.