Archive: Performing Arts
47 Articles
- CAS Magazine: Faculty
This Music Theory Professor Believes in the Transformative Power of Teaching
An assistant professor of music in the Department of Performing Arts, Richard Desinord is inspired by watching his students learn something.…
November 20, 2025
- News Story
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
- News Story
Music Professor Benjamin Harbert Wins 3 Awards for Book on Incarcerated Musicians
Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana’s Angola Prison received the Irving Lowens Book Award, the Music in American Culture Award and the Portia K. Maultsby…
July 14, 2025
- News Story
Hoyas in the Humanities: Bringing Research to Life in the Archives and on the Stage
Last month, the College of Arts & Sciences celebrated the opening of a dedicated space for the Georgetown Humanities Initiative. By housing the initiative in historic Old…
November 8, 2024
- Announcements
Georgetown Awards 3 Early-Stage Associate Professors with New $100K Research Fund
Two of the inaugural winners of the Magis Prize, which comes with $100,000 in research funding to early-stage professors, are faculty members in the College of Arts & Sciences:…
September 5, 2024
- News Story
Georgetown Honors Alumnus Who Fights for Social Justice on the Stage
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Georgetown University honored Reginald L. Douglas (C’09), an alumnus and rising artistic leader in Washington, DC, who has worked to champion…
January 17, 2024
- News Story
Grammy-Nominated Professor Explains Why Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ Is So Popular
Grammy-nominated Professor Carlos Simon breaks down what makes Mariah Carey’s hit the quintessential Christmas…
December 21, 2023
- News Story
Georgetown’s Center on Slavery Launches With Carlos Simon Musical Tribute Honoring the Enslaved
Georgetown marked the launch of an interdisciplinary center that examines the history of slavery and its legacies through a live musical performance composed by a College of&…
September 25, 2023
- News Story
A Hundred Years of Music in the Country’s Largest Maximum-Security Prison
Benjamin Harbert’s new book Instrument of the State offers a sweeping account of more than a century of musical history at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, colloquially known…
September 15, 2023
- News Story
Outstanding Faculty and Staff Recognized at Spring Convocation
The College of Arts & Sciences celebrated its esteemed faculty and staff at its spring…
April 27, 2023