Kai M. Thaler received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2018. He also holds an M.A. in Government from Harvard, an M.Soc.Sc. in Sociology from the University of Cape Town, and a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University. Thaler's research focuses on conflict and violence from the local to the global level. He has studied issues ranging from violence against civilians in civil wars and post-conflict politics in Africa and Latin America, to violent crime in South Africa, to genocide and mass killing in Southeast Asia.