Faculty Research

The College of Arts & Sciences is home to some of the world’s foremost academics producing research that not only shapes their fields but impacts the wider world.

In the classroom, our faculty provide engaging lectures and discussions, while outside they produce research that informs the spheres of policy, science and the arts. Read more about some of the most recent research produced by our world-class faculty.

Faculty Research Stories

Julia-Watts-Belser

“Georgetown has given me the opportunity to bring ethical questions into the very center of my scholarship. It’s also made me feel that my scholarly work, my teaching, my work in the community is a lot more integrated.”

Professor Julia Watts Belser’s Story
Dr. Jeffrey Huang

“Based on our success in animal trials, we believe our drug will help stabilize patients with the disease [multiple sclerosis], reducing not only the number of relapses, but their severity as well.”

Professor Jeffrey Huang’s Story

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News Story

Medical Humanities Director Lakshmi Krishnan Named a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Krishnan will spend the upcoming academic year completing her book, The Doctor and the Detective, about how modern medical diagnosis was forged as much through the literary imagination — particularly detective fiction — as through science.

June 1, 2026

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Faculty in the Media

What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity

For the past eight years, Georgetown University neuroscientist Adam Green has been leading a national research team tracking the range of novel ideas that college-bound high school students present in their application essays, before and after the introduction of ChatGPT.

May 27, 2026

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Faculty in the Media

Georgetown Scholar Anita Gonzalez Helps Bay Hundred Communities Preserve African American History

What began as a quiet search for a writing retreat on the Eastern Shore has evolved into a deeply personal and ambitious effort to preserve the African American history of Bay Hundred communities before those stories disappear.

May 26, 2026