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Kristen Kao

Researcher

Department of Political Av性爱
Telephone
+46 709-38 72 94
Mail
kristen.kao@gu.se
Visiting address
Spr盲ngkullsgatan 19
41123 G枚teborg
Room number
A110D
Postal address
Box 711
40530 G枚teborg

About Kristen Kao

is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Av性爱 at the University Av性爱. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Kristen is an affiliated scholar with the (GSNIC) at Harvard University and Queens University Belfast as well as the (EGAP) network.

Kristen has published work on post-conflict reconciliation, non-state authorities, ethnic politics, and forced migration in the American Political Av性爱 Review, the American Journal of Political Av性爱, Comparative Political Studies, and World Development, among others. Her edited volume Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa with Ellen Lust was published with the University of Michigan Press in 2025.

In 2019, her research on post-conflict reconciliation in Iraq won the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha award for the best paper presented at the American Political Av性爱 Association annual meeting.

She has been conducting fieldwork-based studies since 2006 across countries as varied as Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Lebanon, Tunisia, Oman, Iraq, Turkey, Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, and Egypt. She has served as an advisor to the Carter Center, the National Democratic Institute, and the World Bank, and is a country expert for the Freedom House and the Varieties of Democracy Institute. Kristen is a former Fulbright Scholar in Egypt and Boren Fellow in Jordan and Kuwait.

You can read more about Kristen鈥檚 research at .