Kimberley Coles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Redlands in California. Kimberley Coles' ethnographic field work among international aid workers in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1997 and 2000 included participant observation as an international worker herself as well as interviews, observation, and document collection. Her research focused on the techniques and processes of democratization as understood and implemented by the personnel of the international community. Her book Democratic Designs: International intervention and electoral practices in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, analyzes the production of democratic knowledge through the deployment of seemingly acultural and apolitical objects and subjects. She taught previously at the University of Edinburgh, and is currently on the editorial board of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Kimberley Coles profile can be accessed here.