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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 2025-2026

Sellah King'oro

EMAIL: skingoro@binghamton.edu

Sellah King'oro is a peace and conflict analyst, mediator and gender expert who has contributed to reconciliation/dialogue processes among communities in parts of East and West Africa.  Prior to coming to ������ɫ, she served as the Head of Research, Policy and Planning Department of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission in Kenya where she worked for over nine years.  She has also served as a researcher at Development Policy Management Forum, a Programme Officer at Peace and Development Network, and a chairperson of the Conflict Analysis Group at the National Steering Committee of Peace Building and Conflict Management in the office of the president (Kenya). Sellah holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from Kisii University and two post graduate diplomas from Bradford University, UK and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. 

She is a Rotary Peace Fellow and a Chevening Fellow. Sellah was appointed as the Global Peace Index ambassador in 2015 by the Institute for Economics and Peace, USA following her effort in leading the development of the 2013 social cohesion index for Kenya. She is also the past president of Rotary District 9212 Alumni Association which covers Kenya, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Paula Mantilla-Blanco

EMAIL: pmantillabla@binghamton.edu

Paula Mantilla-Blanco is a comparative education scholar focusing on education in crisis, conflict, and post-conflict contexts. Her work examines the role of formal and non-formal sites of education in teaching about and amid violence, and engaging youth in peacebuilding processes. Paula’s current research centers youth voices to analyze state-sponsored memory sites, such as museums and memorials, and how they contribute to shaping memories of conflict and expectations for the future in Colombia, her home country. She draws on mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) data from multiple stakeholders, including students, teachers, memory site staff, pedagogues, curators, representatives from victims’ organizations, and others. Paula received her PhD in Comparative and International Education with a disciplinary focus in Sociology from Columbia University. Her research has been funded by the National Academy of Education (NA/Ed) Spencer Fellowship and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar Fellowship, among others. Her recent publications have been featured in Comparative Education Review and the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. 

Jenna Norosky

Jenna Norosky is completing 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. 

In addition to Dr. King'oro, Dr. Mantilla-Blanco, and Dr. Norosky, we plan to accept one new postdoctoral fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year- TBA.