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Since 2020, the Institute hosts up to two postdoctoral fellows for yearlong research and teaching residencies. This competitive fellowship attracts applicants from around the world with PhDs in a variety of academic fields, and a strong documented interest in and potential for significant work in atrocity prevention that bridges the divide between academic research and prevention practice.

Academic Year 2026-2027

Alessandro Giuseppe Drago

Alessandro Giuseppe Drago is a sociologist whose research examines exclusionary politics, far-right movements, and the ways online communities mobilize into real-world activism and political violence. His work combines large-scale computational text analysis with qualitative methods to understand how extremist movements build collective identities, develop organizational strategies, and encourage participation in high-risk activism. Alessandro joins 91���� after earning his PhD in Sociology from McGill University and serving as a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. His research contributes to political sociology, race and ethnicity, social movement studies, and computational social science. His current projects focus on white supremacist and far-right movements, including the role of digital discourse in radicalization, mobilization, gender politics, and contemporary exclusionary politics.

Sellah Martens

EMAIL: skingoro@binghamton.edu

Sellah Martens is a peace researcher & practitioner, gender specialist, and Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She has served for fifteen years as Head of Research at the Kenyan National Cohesion and Integration Commission, where she coordinated research and interventions to enhance social cohesion. She has also contributed to reconciliation efforts across East and West Africa as a member of FEMWISE. Sellah trained military and police personnel for UN and AU peace operations when she was the Senior Gender Advisor at the British Peace Support Team (Africa), earning recognition from the UK Ministry of Defence. She holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies with a gender focus, a Master of International Studies, a Bachelor of Laws, and a Bachelor of Education degrees from various Kenyan universities. She is also a recipient of the Rotary Peace Fellowship from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and the Chevening Fellowship from Bradford University, UK. Her research interests include social cohesion, gender, peace, and security. Her recent work is published in the Africa Amani Journal and the Institute for Integrated Transitions (2025).

Jenna Norosky

EMAIL: jnorosky@binghamton.edu

Jenna Norosky completed their PhD in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a specialization in International Relations. Their research interests lie at the intersection of conflict, human rights and humanitarianism, and gender, with a particular focus on how gendered identities and beliefs constitute international- and national-level responses to war. Their dissertation “‘Men, too’: Wartime sexual violence against men and boys and the politics of silence,” funded by the American Political Science Association, investigates the increased visibility of conflict-related sexual violence against men and boys at the global level. Their findings shed light on the limitations of ‘silence’ as a conceptual framework and rhetorical tool for advocacy drawing attention to neglected issues. Norosky’s research on discourse surrounding conflict-related sexual violence, and the adverse humanitarian impacts of Ukraine’s male-only civilian travel ban in response to the Russian invasion, is published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Human Rights Quarterly, respectively.