Archive: Philosophy

• College Hosts Virtual Teach-In, From COVID to Minneapolis: Structural Racism in America

  June 4, 2020

  “It pains me that we gather under the context of COVID-19 and the ongoing structural violence of anti-black racism,” says Soyica Colbert, moderator of the panel, Vice Dean of Faculty and Idol Family Professor in the Departments of Performing Arts and African American Studies. “But we are here in the tradition of teaching, as part of a social movement for change.”

  Category: News Story Tags: African American Studies, Event, Faculty, History, Performing Arts, Philosophy

• Professor to Research Spatial Information in Germany With Prestigious Humboldt Award

  February 11, 2020

  Philosophy professor Quill Kukla, a senior research scholar at the university’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE), is one of only 100 applicants around the world to receive the highly coveted Humboldt Research Award.

  Category: News Story Tags: Award, Faculty, Philosophy

• Philosophy Professor Partners with CSET, Receives Grant

  October 9, 2019

  Philosophy Professor Maggie Little of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Jason Matheny, founding executive director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University, recently won a grant for their collaborative project, “Embedding Ethics for Career Training in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence.”

  Category: News Story Tags: Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Faculty, Grants, Philosophy

• Withy, Hipwell, Woolard Receive 2018 Dean’s Awards

  January 29, 2019

  Georgetown College Dean Chris Celenza presented three faculty members with the Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the Faculty Convocation ceremony on Monday.

  Category: News Story Tags: Awards, Dean's Office, Faculty, Italian, Philosophy, Psychology

• New Faculty 2018-2019

  September 5, 2018

  Georgetown College is thrilled to welcome 37 new full-time faculty members with primary appointments in College departments this year. Get to know them here.

  Category: News Story Tags: African American Studies, Art & Art History, Computer Science, Economics, Faculty, French, Government, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Spanish and Portuguese

• Alumna's Original Play Read at Kennedy Center Festival

  October 5, 2017

  Landas, an original play by Cristina Maninang Ibarra (C’17), was read at the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage New Play Festival last month.

  Category: News Story Tags: Alumni, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Research

• Three Journeys to Commencement

  May 25, 2016

  Georgetown College graduating seniors Madison Pachoe, Georgina Ryder and Bassam Sidiki reflect on the paths that brought them to Commencement.

  Category: News Story Tags: Biology, Commencement, English, Philosophy, Student