Archive: Faculty
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Spring Faculty and Staff Convocation celebrates teaching, discovery, and service
The College of Arts & Sciences is proud to honor the outstanding faculty and staff who make up its exceptional community of scholars. Three professors received Dean’s…
March 24, 2025
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Why is Irish Culture So Popular? Explaining Ireland’s ‘Green Wave’
Darragh Gannon, Assistant Teaching Professor and Associate Director of Global Irish Studies, dives into the history of the Irish diaspora and explains why the Irish rule American…
March 12, 2025
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How Ants Respond to the Cicada Boom: Martha Weiss Leads NSF-Funded Research
A new NSF-funded project led by Martha Weiss aims to find out what happens to forest food webs when billions of cicadas emerge by focusing on often-overlooked creatures:.…
March 4, 2025
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Laia Balcells named recipient of prestigious ISA’s Award
Laia Balcells, a professor in Georgetown University’s College of Arts & Sciences, was named the recipient of the 2025 ISA’s International Security Studies Section (ISSS)…
February 26, 2025
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Psychology Professor Kostadin Kushlev Explores How Smartphones Affect Human Happiness and Offers Tips on How to Reduce Your Screen Time
This story is a part of our Ask a Professor series, in which Georgetown faculty members break down complex issues and use their research to inform trending conversations, from…
February 3, 2025
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Longtime Georgetown Professor, Administrator Named Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
David Edelstein, vice provost for education and a veteran professor who’s taught at Georgetown for over 20 years, has been named the new dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.…
February 3, 2025
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Want a Happier 2025? It Comes Down to Two Words, a Neuroscientist Says
Helping others—even tiny acts of kindness—makes us happier, says Abigail Marsh, a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience…
January 10, 2025
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Literature Professors Pick the Best Books To Read This Winter
With so many books to choose from, we asked literature professors in the Department of English for their recommendations on what to read this winter. Whether you’re looking to…
December 20, 2024
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Bringing the Humanities to the Town Square: Ricardo Ortiz Champions the Intersection of Academic and Public Life
Professor Ricardo Ortiz has been named guest editor for a special edition of Public Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal from Cambridge University Press that publishes scholarship…
December 13, 2024
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Georgetown Historian Awarded €10 Million to Solve Enduring Mystery of the Black Death
In the early 14th century, pandemic plague emerged in central Asia. It arrived in the Mediterranean region and Europe in the late 1340s, spreading widely and killing millions.…
November 26, 2024