Archive: Research
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Earliest African DNA Paints Vivid Picture of Ancient Human Lives
Kathryn de Luna, a history professor at Georgetown, is an author of a new paper examining the earliest DNA ever recovered from. …
March 2, 2022
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Award-Winning Composer Honors 272 Enslaved People Through Hip Hop and Liturgical Work
Carlos Simon is an award-winning composer and musician. He’s the composer-in-residence at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and has written concert music and…
February 28, 2022
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Has the Black Death’s Impact Been Overstated? New Medieval Data Complicates Understanding
Timothy Newfield, an assistant professor in the Department of History, is the co-author of a new paper on the impacts of the bubonic.…
February 17, 2022
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Georgetown Researchers Aim to Clean Up U.S. Cement Production with Policy Solutions for Technological Upgrades
A team of Georgetown researchers from across disciplines are collaborating to investigate a set of technology solutions and policy proposals that can drastically reduce the…
February 11, 2022
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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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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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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
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Sabrina Wesley-Nero Creates Curriculum for Literacy Program to Counteract Education Inequities
Sabrina Wesley-Nero, Ph.D., and director of the Education, Inquiry and Justice Program, oversaw and wrote the curriculum for the inaugural year of the 1619 Freedom School in…
October 14, 2021