Archive: Film & Media Studies
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Books, Songs, Movies and Podcasts to Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary
On the semiquincentennial, we reached out to professors across Georgetown to learn more about America’s early roots and its complex history.…
July 1, 2026
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Billie Jean King, Questlove and More: This Year’s Notable Documentaries at the DC/Dox Film Festival
Associate Professor Sky Sitney, the co-founder and festival director of DC/DOX, told WTOP that five films that were nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary…
June 11, 2026
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Divider or Unifier? How Television Shapes Culture and Society
Caetlin Benson-Allott, an English professor and the director of Film and Media Studies, explores the historic impact of television on American society and the evolution of…
June 3, 2026
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4 Alumni with Majors That Led Them in Unexpected and Successful Directions
A beauty director whose classical studies minor sets her apart. A medical student whose English degree is his superpower. Meet alumni whose liberal arts degrees expanded their…
April 14, 2026
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Examining Hurricane Katrina’s Environmental Justice Legacy, 20 Years Later
The Katrina@20 Symposium explored the impacts of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans on memory, culture, history, the environment and social.…
November 20, 2025
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Scoring an Internship: Hilltop Experiences Help Daelyn Waters (C’23) Work with Orioles & Wizards
A Maryland native, Daelyn Waters (C’23) completed an internship with the Baltimore Orioles this past summer, where she was able to apply skills she learned from her academics and…
January 11, 2022
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Sticking to the Classics, Lyons Draws National Scholarship Attention
Classics major Annee Lyons (C'18) is the 2017 recipient of the Beinecke Scholarship and is a finalist for the Rhodes and Marshall.…
November 10, 2017
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Hochman Receives NEH Public Scholar Fellowship
Georgetown College professor Brian Hochman has received a prestigious Public Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to work on his upcoming…
August 15, 2017
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10 Great Classes to Fill Out Your Schedule
We tasked our team of advising deans with putting together a list of their favorite fall courses that still (as of Tuesday morning, August 30) have spots available. If you’…
August 30, 2016
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Wiretapping, from Telegraphs to iPhones
With a new NEH research grant and a book on the way, Professor Brian Hochman is diving into the long, largely unexplored history of wiretapping in the United.…
April 26, 2016