Kerry Whigham is Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University and Co-Director of its Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP). His first book, Resonant Violence: Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies, is published by Rutgers University Press. He has also published articles in Genocide Studies and Prevention, Memory Studies, Public Administration Review, Tourist Studies, Public Administration and Development, and Museum and Society, and has written chapters for several edited volumes. He received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University.
In addition to his academic work, he is the Director of Research and Online Education at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, an international non-governmental organization that works with over 90 countries around the world on creating public policy for the protection of vulnerable groups and the prevention of mass atrocities.
Formerly, he has been a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at Binghamton University's I-GMAP, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights, a member of the faculty consortium for Stockton University's graduate certificate program in genocide prevention, a visiting scholar at Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and the managing editor of emisférica, a biannual, trilingual, peer-reviewed journal on performance and politics in the Americas, published by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. He has taught courses at New York University, Kean University, and Stockton University. His work has been presented at academic conferences and universities on six continents.
Kerry's research focuses on the way post-atrocity societies remember and engage with the past, along with how that violent past impacts the present and future. In particular, his research engages the creation and curation of public memory sites, as well as grassroots, civil society activism, both as a means for shaping public memory and transforming post-conflict societies. As part of this work, Kerry has conducted field research across Latin America, Europe, and the United States.
In addition to his academic work, he is the Director of Research and Online Education at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, an international non-governmental organization that works with over 90 countries around the world on creating public policy for the protection of vulnerable groups and the prevention of mass atrocities.
Formerly, he has been a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at Binghamton University's I-GMAP, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights, a member of the faculty consortium for Stockton University's graduate certificate program in genocide prevention, a visiting scholar at Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and the managing editor of emisférica, a biannual, trilingual, peer-reviewed journal on performance and politics in the Americas, published by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. He has taught courses at New York University, Kean University, and Stockton University. His work has been presented at academic conferences and universities on six continents.
Kerry's research focuses on the way post-atrocity societies remember and engage with the past, along with how that violent past impacts the present and future. In particular, his research engages the creation and curation of public memory sites, as well as grassroots, civil society activism, both as a means for shaping public memory and transforming post-conflict societies. As part of this work, Kerry has conducted field research across Latin America, Europe, and the United States.