Berkley Center

Barbara Craig is an independent researcher. She previously was director of assessment and diversity at Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS); Craig was a principal investigator for the Berkley Center-CNDLS Undergraduate Learning and Interreligious Understanding survey project.

Hafsa Kanjwal graduated from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in 2009 with a degree in regional studies that concentrated on the Muslim world. Hafsa participated in the Berkley Center’s Junior Year Abroad Network while studying in Cairo during spring 2007.

Michael Kessler is executive director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, an associate professor of the practice of moral and political theory in the Department of Government, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law. Kessler’s research and writing focus on theology, philosophical and religious ethics, and social, political, and legal theory. He is interested in problems of law and religion, both globally and in the U.S. constitutional context. Kessler is the author of several edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Political Theology, co-edited with Shaun Casey (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); Political Theology for a Plural Age (Oxford University Press, 2013); and Mystics: Presence and Aporia, co-edited with Christian Sheppard (University of Chicago Press, 2003). He also wrote “Engaging Religion in U.S. Foreign Affairs,” a chapter in the Companion to Religion and Politics in the United States (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). Kessler is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Noah Silverman serves as senior director of learning and partnerships at Interfaith Youth Core. He earned a B.A. in religious studies and international relations from Connecticut College and an M.A. in religious studies from New York University.

Rev. Christopher Steck, S.J., is an associate professor and department chair in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University, as well as a Jesuit-in-Residence in New South Hall. Before joining the Jesuits in 1983 he worked as a design engineer for Texas Instruments. He writes on theoretical issues in Catholic moral theology.