Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellows in Atrocity Prevention
Call for Applications: Open to US Faculty from Any Discipline on Any Campus
Applications must be submitted no later than August 15, 2024
Every academic discipline has something to contribute to the protection of human rights and the prevention of large-scale, identity-based violence. The Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) at Binghamton University has pioneered the Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellows in Atrocity Prevention program to engage faculty in a guided process of learning and exploration of the potential for their own disciplines to contribute to atrocity prevention. Fellows learn from I-GMAP’s faculty, staff and practitioner visitors and alongside faculty from a wide range of disciplines both within their cohort and from previous cohorts. The program culminates with each faculty member modifying at least one of their own courses to integrate an atrocity prevention lens through innovative and engaged pedagogical approaches.
The upcoming program runs from September 2024 through April 2025 (excluding winter intercession), primarily in an online and asynchronous format, with synchronous meetings at the start and finish of the program, and successful completion of the fellowship comes with a financial award.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY
Application Process
Faculty members can apply by using the simple form found here. If deans, chairs, or colleagues would like to nominate a faculty member for the program, we encourage them to share this call for applications with them directly or to contact I-GMAP’s Co Director Kerry Whigham at kwhigham@binghamton.edu to share that faculty member’s information.
Who is Eligible to Participate
Faculty members from any US college or university and from any and all disciplines and professional fields are eligible to become Fellows. I-GMAP takes a broad view of prevention—one that extends far beyond crisis management or intervention in the face of mass killing. Prevention includes strategies that can reduce the likelihood of violence before it starts, mitigate harm and motivate an end to conflicts once they begin, and rebuild in the aftermath of atrocities. Effective prevention encompasses all fields and professions – from humanities and social sciences, through the physical sciences and technical fields, and everything in between – and it takes a variety of forms.
To date, I-GMAP has welcomed Faculty Fellows from a vast array of disciplines, including:
- History
- Nursing
- Theater and Dance
- Education
- Business and Management
- Data Science
- Comparative Literature
- Language Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Anthropology
- Political Science
- Public Administration
- Computer Science
- Environmental Studies
This year, we hope to expand even further the number of disciplines covered by this program so that even more students will be asked to consider how they can contribute to the prevention of mass atrocities and other forms of identity-based violence throughout their educational and professional careers.
Selection Criteria
In selecting among applicants for the Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellows program,
the I-
GMAP Co-Directors will be attentive to the stated rationale for interest reflected
in the
individual application as well as the diversity of disciplines represented in the
overall
group of awards. Since 2018, I-GMAP has supported 61 faculty members from more than
20 departments across five colleges at Binghamton University and from 13 other colleges
and universities across the United States. This year, we will be accepting 40 new
faculty members to participate in the program.
Program Benefits
Scheidt Faculty Fellows will receive the following benefits:
- An award of $2,500 upon successful completion of the program. (Those from
Binghamton University will receive an additional research grant of $2500 the first time they offer a course with a GMAP cross listing for 2-5 seats). - Access (during and after the program) to a wealth of online materials related to atrocity prevention.
- Priority access to scheduling meetings and class visits (in person or virtual) with I-GMAP’s diverse array of resident and visiting practitioners.
- Potential to receive funding for events co-sponsored by I-GMAP.
- Supplemental travel expenses to attend the 2024 Frontiers of Prevention
international forum hosted by I-GMAP in Binghamton, New York, in April 2024. - Copies of leading texts in atrocity prevention
Program Requirements
The program runs from September 15, 2024, through April 30, 2025 (excluding winter intercession), primarily in an online and asynchronous format, with synchronous meetings at the start and finish of the program. To successfully complete the program, Fellows must:
- participate in person or virtually in the synchronous meeting on Friday, September 15, 2023, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern time;
- participate in a debriefing meeting in April 2024 (exact date TBD);
- complete the 8 asynchronous online learning modules, which include readings, videos, discussions and reflections (roughly two weeks allotted per module with a break during winter intercession);
- submit a syllabus and related course materials demonstrating sufficient integration of atrocity prevention in learning outcomes, readings or other materials, and assignments.
Applications are open on June 1, 2024, and will be accepted until August 15, 2024, or
until the 40 Fellow positions are filled, whichever occurs first. Click here to apply. Interested individuals are encouraged to contact prior participants to learn about
their experiences (links below for prior Faculty Fellow cohorts).
Past Faculty Fellows
Review the GMAP Curricular Innovations from past faculty fellows since the creation of the program.
2022-20232021-20222020-2021 2019-2020* 2018-2019*
*From 2018-2020 this program was known as the GMAP Curriculum Development Program.
Contact
If you have questions about the program and award, please contact Kerry Whigham at kwhigham@binghamton.edu
