She directs the university’s Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, which includes their undergraduate human rights program. An interdisciplinary social scientist, Kingston earned her Ph.D. in Social Science in 2010 at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Her current research interests include statelessness, transnational human rights advocacy, indigenous rights, and genocide prevention. She is an affiliated researcher with the International Observatory on Statelessness, based at Middlesex University London, and an editorial board member for Human Rights Review.