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I-GMAP is comprised of a core team of professional and academic staff.

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Max Pensky

Co-Director & Professor of Philosophy

Max Pensky, PhD is a professor of philosophy and a co-director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention. His main areas of scholarly research include contemporary political theory and political philosophy and the philosophy of international law, with an emphasis on the normative foundations of current practices of transitional justice, the post-conflict legal and political demands on recovering states, and the relation between domestic and international criminal law. He also publishes regularly on critical theory, including the works of Theodor Adorno and Jürgen Habermas, and on issues in contemporary German political culture. He is the author of two books and over 50 articles and chapters. He has held fellowships at Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Cornell University, Oxford University and the University of Ulster. Current research projects include a comprehensive study of the normative issues surrounding the use of domestic amnesties for international crimes, and the concept of impunity and the implications of an international legal-political norm against impunity for international crimes. 

Email: mpensky@binghamton.edu | Website

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Kerry Whigham

Co-Director & Associate Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Kerry Whigham, PhD is an associate professor of genocide and mass atrocity prevention. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Performance Studies from New York University. He has published articles in Genocide Studies and Prevention, The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Tourist Studies, Material Culture, and Museum and Society, and has written a chapter for the edited volume Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Previously, he has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights and a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. In addition to his position at I-GMAP, he is the Academic Programs Officer for Online Education at the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation and the Communications Officer for the International Association of Genocide Scholars. His research focuses on memory practices and civil society activism in post-atrocity societies.

Email: kwhigham@binghamton.edu|

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Nadia Rubaii

Founding Co-Director & Professor of Public Administration

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Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm

PhD, Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, PhD is a professor of genocide and mass atrocity prevention. He is the author of three books and over 40 articles and book chapters on transitional justice (TJ), human rights, and peacebuilding. Specifically, he is interested in evaluating the impact of justice and peacebuilding policy interventions, the political economy of TJ, and the role of diasporas in TJ processes. His newest book (with Elin Skaar & Jemima García-Godos) is Exploring Truth Commission Recommendations in a Comparative Perspective: Beyond Words (Intersentia Uitgevers NV, 2022). Current research projects examine truth commission engagement with marginalized groups, truth commission successor bodies, and donor funding for transitional justice. Prior to joining I-GMAP, he held positions at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Florida State University, DePaul University’s International Human Rights Law Institute, and the University of Nevada - Las Vegas. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and the University of Seoul, as well as a visiting scholar at the Christian Michelson Institute (Norway). He is a 2022-2023 Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention. He received his doctorate in Political Science at the University of Colorado. 

Email: ewiebelhausb@binghamton.edu

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Eliyana Adler

PhD, Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Eliyana Adler, PhD joined I-GMAP and the Departments of History and Judaic Studies as Professor. She is a student and teacher of East European Jewish history, with a particular focus on Poland and the USSR. Her first book, In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia (WSUP, 2011), examined the history of education, and her second book, Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union, followed the experiences of a group of Jewish refugees in the midst of the war and the Holocaust. Currently, she is working on a project about post-Holocaust Jewish memorial books.

Email: eadler9@binghamton.edu

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Nicole Barren

Assistant Director

Nicole Barren is Assistant Director at I-GMAP.  Nicole joined the I-GMAP team in May 2024 after over a decade working in the nonprofit sector with an emphasis on women’s and children’s health and education.  This included seven years as executive director of a nonprofit providing shelter, counseling, and advocacy services to domestic violence survivors. Nicole also worked in southeastern Africa for over four years, as field manager at a Swiss nonprofit organization that worked to improve women’s and children’s education and healthcare in rural Malawi, and as a rural education development specialist with the Peace Corps in remote northern Zambia.  Nicole has a MS in Child and Family Health in the Global Community from Syracuse University and a BA in Anthropology from Hartwick College.  

Email: nbarren@binghamton.edu 

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Stacy Thatcher

Administrative Assistant
 

Email: sthatcher@binghamton.edu