Dr. Rob Grace is a researcher and teacher focused on the politics of humanitarian response, human rights, international humanitarian law, and civilian protection. He is Lead Researcher at Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict. Previously, he has held faculty positions at a wide array of academic institutions, including Tufts University, Brown University, Boston University, and Brandeis University.
Dr. Grace was a USIP-Minerva Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace, as well as a Graduate Research Fellow and a Summer Fellow at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. He has also led, or co-led, policy-oriented research projects on humanitarian-military relations at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University, where he was also affiliated faculty between 2022-2023. Dr. Grace’s professional experience includes serving as Senior Associate at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, where he led a multi-year research project on fact-finding related to human rights and international humanitarian law, co-hosted and produced monthly webcasts on humanitarian action and developed e-learning modules for the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard.
Dr. Grace’s research and writing have been published by International Studies Quarterly, Journal of International Humanitarian Action, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, Conflict and Health, Negotiation Journal, and World Health and Population, among others. He holds a PhD in political science from Brown University, an MA in politics from New York University and a BA from Vassar College.