Archive: Faculty in the Media
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- Faculty in the Media
What ‘Familect’ Do You Speak? Linguists Explain the Weird Words and Phrases Used Within Families
Georgetown University linguist Cynthia Gordon spent over two decades recording how families really talk at.…
July 13, 2026
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How American Socialism Changed, and Stormed the Democratic Party
“This is the first time that a mass socialist organization has had members where almost all of them decide to run as Democrats, instead of running on their own party line,” said…
July 10, 2026
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Trump Always Does This 1 Extremely Boomer Thing In His Truth Social Posts
“My guess would be [it’s] to remind people he’s the president and to have the pleasure of seeing ‘President Donald Trump,’” said Deborah Tannen, a distinguished linguistics…
July 9, 2026
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Juneteenth Gathering at Sacred Heart in Bowie Honors Legacy of Enslaved Ancestors
Adam Rothman, a professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University and the director of Georgetown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and its Legacies, said serving on…
June 27, 2026
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Screens Are Virtually Inescapable. What Are They Doing to Our Health?
Horizons from PBS News moderator William Brangham explores what we know and don’t know with researchers Georgetown's Kostadin Kushlev and Northwestern's Courtney K..…
June 26, 2026
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Hitting the Administrative Track
Meet the researchers finding fulfilment in leadership and.…
June 24, 2026
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Our Never-Ending American Argument
How to sum up something as vast and varied as the American experiment? The New Republic surveyed leading scholars and.…
June 24, 2026
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Democratic Socialist Set to Be DC’s Next Mayor, Furthering Breakout Year For Left
“Clearly the terrain is not right for a socialist running in a Socialist Party. There is no Socialist Party that has any strength or membership to speak of,” said Michael Kazin,…
June 18, 2026
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DC Voters Face a New Political Era Without Eleanor Holmes Norton, After Her 18 Terms in Congress
Maurice Jackson, a historian at Georgetown University, said Norton is also a brilliant constitutional lawyer along with being a civil rights legend and EEOC trailblazer. That,…
June 17, 2026
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Summer Challenge: Put Your Phone Away for Better Sleep
Place your phone out of arm’s reach, so you’d have to leave your bed to get it, said Kostadin Kushlev, an associate professor of psychology at Georgetown who runs the Happy Tech…
June 11, 2026