Charles E. Scheidt Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Overview

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Budget

Title:

Postdoctoral Associate (SL-1)

Salary: $55,000 (full-time, temporary, 12-month appointment)

Binghamton University s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) is pleased to announce the Charles

E. Scheidt Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention and welcomes applications for the 2026-7 academic year. These one-year fellowships are renewable for a maximum of two years.

Through the generous support of the Charles

E. Scheidt Family Foundation, the post-doctoral fellowship offers qualified applicants the opportunity to pursue their research at Binghamton University while working closely with the I-GMAP team to promote and advance interdisciplinary and practitioner-relevant scholarship dedicated to improved understanding of and capacities for the prevention of mass atrocities.

The fellowship supports recent recipients of terminal degrees in any relevant academic discipline with potential to contribute to atrocity prevention. I-GMAP s broad conception of atrocity prevention encompasses upstream (structural issues such as international relations, conflict and peace building, international political economy, sociology of ethnic and other inter-group conflict drivers, resource management, social media and communication, climate change-driven conflict, civil society movements, political systems and regime change, international corporations);

midstream (Responsibility to Protect, humanitarian intervention, sanctions regimes and other international financial institutions as intervention approaches); and downstream approaches for post-atrocity resilience (including transitional justice, reparations, memorialization and memory sites, truth commissions, and related political and cultural topics). Applicants may propose other connections between their research program and atrocity prevention under this broad conception.

Applicants must have their terminal degree conferred by the Fellowship start date of August 15, 2026. Recent PhDs from any discipline are welcome to apply, including those in Africana studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business administration, comparative literature, computer science, engineering, environmental science, geography, gender studies, history, human rights, indigenous studies, international finance, international relations, Latin American studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, public administration, or sociology.

Under appropriate circumstances, applications by recent recipients of the J.D. will also be considered, as will those already occupying temporary or tenure-track positions.

The three-fold mission of I-GMAP is to:
1) bridge the gap between academic research on atrocity prevention and practitioners;
2) break down barriers between disciplines;
3) bring the resources of a modern research university to advance atrocity prevention. Fellows are expected to benefit from and contribute to the full range of I-GMAP activities. This may include work on a book manuscript and/or peer-reviewed journal articles, and also policy briefs, technical reports, training or educational workshops, and mass media publications. Fellows will teach at least one course at the undergraduate and/or master s level, present at least one public lecture, and participate in I-GMAP activities including interactions with practitioners and the annual Frontiers of Prevention forum.

Fellowships carry a competitive salary and include a substantial stipend in support of research, including travel.

Doctorate degree in a relevant discipline by August 15, 2026. Visa sponsorship may be available in the J-1 category.

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