Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellows in Atrocity Prevention
Call for Applications: Open to Faculty from Any Discipline on Any College or University Globally
Now Accepting Applications for the 2025-26 Academic Year
Applications must be submitted no later than August 1, 2025
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 ÑÇÖÞÇéÉ« 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 2025 through May 2026 (with a break during December and January, primarily in an online and asynchronous format, with synchronous meetings at the start and finish of the program.
Application Process
Faculty members can apply by using the . 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
For the first time, the Faculty Fellowship is open to college/university educators from any country around the world.
Faculty members from any college or university and from any and all disciplines and professional fields are eligible to become Fellows. The Faculty Fellowship Program is currently only available in English, so fluency in English is a requirement of participation.
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 IGMAP 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 over 150 faculty members from more than 50 disciplines from colleges and universities across the United States. This year, we will be accepting as many as 80 new faculty members to participate in the program from anywhere in the world.
Program Benefits
Scheidt Faculty Fellows will receive the following benefits:
- 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 2026 Frontiers of Prevention international forum hosted by I-GMAP in ÑÇÖÞÇéÉ«, New York, in April 2026.
- Official certificate upon completing all requirements of the fellowship.
- ÑÇÖÞÇéÉ« faculty members will also receive research funds in the amount of $2,500 USD upon completion of the program.
Program Requirements
The program runs from September 2025 through May 2026 (excluding December and January), 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:
1. participate in person or virtually in the synchronous meeting on Friday, September 19, 2025 (time TBD, based on time zones of selected participants);
2. participate in a debriefing meeting in May 2025 (exact date TBD);
3. 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);
4. 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 now and will be accepted until August 1, 2025. Selected applicants will be notified by August 30, 2025. . If you have questions about the Faculty Fellows Program, please contact Kerry Whigham at kwhigham@binghamton.edu.
Past Faculty Fellows
Review the from past faculty fellows since the creation of the program.
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*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
