Kamran L. Hakiman is a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of International Affairs, with concentrations in comparative politics, experimental and field methods, and democratization in Southeast Asia. He studies the politics of decentralized, local collective action in response to democratic shocks, focusing on emerging democracies and conflict-affected settings. Hakiman's dissertation focuses on the case of Myanmar’s resistance movement, combining survey experiments with case-studies based on original fieldwork.
Prior to joining the PhD program at GSPIA, Hakiman was an external researcher with Mercy Corps, leading qualitative and quantitative research as examining at governance and policy interventions with normative goals. This work has been published in Studies in Comparative International Development, alongside policy publications. He has conducted field-work in contexts including Myanmar, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, and Sierra Leone.
Hakiman holds an MPP from Harvard University and a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion (double) from Maryville College.
