Meghan Garrity, Assistant Professor
Her research is situated at the nexus of international peace and security, political violence, and forced migration. She is focused on understanding conflict processes by examining the causes of, and constraints on, government policies of group-based ethnic violence and exclusion. Her book, Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal (Oxford University Press – Bridging the Gap Series, 2026), explains why and how governments expel ethnic groups en masse. Garrity’s work is published in the Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, Political Science Quarterly, International Political Science Review, The British Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Affairs, The Conversation, and The Washington Post. She also has over ten years of experience as a humanitarian and development practitioner throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
Garrity was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Peace Fellow with the U.S. Institute of Peace. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Areas of Research: International security, Ethnic violence, Mass atrocities, Forced migration, Refugees, Human Rights.
Madeline Vellturo
Madeline Vellturo is a research analyst and policy practitioner with more than 12 years of experience working on stabilization, peacebuilding, and violence prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. Areas of expertise include countering violent extremism, atrocity prevention, civilian protection, UN peacekeeping, identity-based conflict, rural livelihoods, and natural resource management. She is currently an Advisor with Strategic Stabilization Advisors and a PhD candidate at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Studies. She is also co-founder, Director, and host of Former Feds & Friends, a new media initiative using popular film and television to make lessons in violence prevention from around the world accessible to wider audience.
Madeline previously served as a Research Analyst with the Stimson Center’s Protecting Civilians in Conflict Program, a Senior Policy Analyst at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and a Stabilization Advisor with the State Department’s Conflict and Stabilization Operations Bureau. She received a Bachelors degree from Bryn Mawr College and a Masters degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She has lived and worked abroad in Guinea, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, and Uganda, and conducted field research in Mali, Central African Republic, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Democratic Republic of Congo.
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