Jenna Norosky

• B.A. in Political Science, Reed College (2018)
• PhD in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2025)

Jenna Norosky is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University. In September 2025 they completed my PhD in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where they were a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Human Security Lab. Jenna specialize in international relations with research interests in conflict and political violence, human security, and human rights. Their work focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in global- and national-level responses to conflict and insecurity. Jenna has extensive training in and experience using various qualitative methods, and to date has designed and taught three different courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Jenna's dissertation, which was funded by the American Political Science Association and earned distinction, traces and explains the emergence of a norm to ‘unsilence’ male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and takes stock of the implications of this discursive change, including prevailing essentialisms about male survivors’ experiences and lingering tensions in the advocacy world. They are currently working on translating the project into a book manuscript.