Meghan Garrity, Assistant Professor of International Security & Law, Schar School of Policy and Government, is serving as a Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Research Fellow in the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide.
The fellowship began in June 2026 and will end in late May 2027.
This fellowship is intended to support new or ongoing original research projects on mass atrocities and/or mass atrocity prevention.
Garrity will produce two written products: a full-length paper manuscript and a policy memo, drawing on the manuscript’s findings.
Garrity received $30,000 from the Holocaust Memorial Museum for this award. Funding began in June 2026 and will end in late May 2027.
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