Kimberly Turner is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs. She was a postdoctoral fellow with the Watson Institute at Brown University from 2022-2023. She was an International Security postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University from 2021-2023. Dr. Turner received her PhD in political science in 2021 from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her research focuses on the causes and outcomes of mass movements. Her methodological work develops new measures of non-violent resistance efficacy, while her substantive work analyzes the linkages between skilled labor’s employment and wage grievance to the onset and outcomes of contentious politics within authoritarian settings. Dr. Turner's work has been published in the Journal of Peace Research, American Political Science Association, Duck of Minerva, and the Global Post.