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Ricardo Ortiz Hopes to Make Literary Departments More Inclusive During Term As President of the Association of Departments of English

Ricardo Ortiz, Ph.D., was recently named president of the Association of Departments of English (ADE). The author, professor and former chair of Georgetown’s Department of…

January 27, 2022

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Georgetown Professor Wins Prestigious Prize for the Study of Classical Arabic Poetry

A Georgetown professor is making international waves for her dedicated study of Classical Arabic poetry. Suzanne Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and…

January 25, 2022

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New College Dean Rosie Ceballo Discusses Community and Collaboration in Q&A

Rosie Ceballo, Ph.D., is now a Hoya. An interdisciplinary scholar, Ceballo comes to Georgetown after serving as a professor of psychology and women’s and gender studies and…

January 10, 2022

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Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism Linked to Climate Crisis: New Book Explores the Connection

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, reimagines what the reparations movements responding to Trans-Atlantic slavery and colonialism…

January 4, 2022

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Colleen Baer (C’22) Contributes to Research at the Intersection of Religion and Reconciliation in Ireland

As part of the Figge Fellows Program, Colleen Baer (C'22) is researching the impact of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis on the challenges of peace making in Northern…

December 20, 2021

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Linguistics Team Wins Competition, Professor Receives Accolades

A team of Ph.D. students representing the Department of Linguistics Corpling Lab won top marks in all five categories of DISRPT 2021, a recurring computational linguistics…

December 7, 2021

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JUPS Students Contribute to Global Research Initiative on Mapping Peace Education

“Mapping Peace Education,” an online tool and publication analyzing global peace education efforts, is a new research initiative of the Global Campaign for Peace Education…

December 6, 2021

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Postdoctoral Fellow Maëva Millan and Professor Sarah Stewart Johnson Conduct First-of-Its-Kind Research Searching for Organic Molecules on Red Planet

In a paper published in Nature Astronomy, Georgetown Postdoctoral Fellow Maëva Millan and her advisor, Sarah Stewart Johnson, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the…

November 16, 2021

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Study by Psychology Professors Johnson and Phillips Shows Successes, Struggles of Students During Distance Learning

Professors in the Department of Psychology Anna Johnson, Ph.D., and Deborah Phillips, Ph.D., partnered with researchers at the University of Oklahoma on the Tulsa SEED Study,…

November 5, 2021

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Which Witch: Two Professors Use Historical Research to Teach Class on Different Forms of Witchcraft from Around the World

Alison Games, Ph.D. and Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History, and Amy Leonard, Ph.D., professor of History and director of undergraduate studies, co-instruct the…

October 29, 2021