Scholars across Campus

• A. Nathan Abramowitz

  Rabbi A. Nathan Abramowitz is Professorial Lecturer in the Theology Department at Georgetown, where he teaches courses on Judaism, Jewish Traditions, and Jewish Ethics. He holds an A.B. from Johns Hopkins University and pursued his rabbinical studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
  
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• Lama Abu-Odeh | Law Center

  Lama Abu-Odeh is a Professor at the Georgetown Law Center. Previously, she was a consulting assistant professor at Stanford Law School, where she taught Criminal Law, Comparative Family Law, Islamic Law, and a seminar entitled "Nations, Races, and Religion." She was a writing instructor in the Graduate Program and Coordinator of Special Academic Projects, Islamic Legal Studies Program, at Harvard Law School, and worked at the World Bank as legal counsel in the Middle East/North Africa Division. As an elections observer for the United Nations, Professor Abu-Odeh participated in voter education, party monitoring, and election supervision for the first democratic elections in South Africa. She has written articles on Feminism and Islam and is the author of a forthcoming publication, Modernizing Muslim Family Law: The Case of Egypt. >> external link

   

• Fida J. Adely | Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

  Fida Adely joined the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in the fall of 2007 as an Assistant Professor and as the holder of the Clovis and Hala Salaam Maksoud Chair in Arab Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Education and Anthropology from Columbia University, Teachers College and her master degree from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her most recent research has focused on schools, and in particular secondary schooling for girls in Jordan. This work examines the role of schools as both state institutions, and critical social spaces for young women in their struggles to define and make sense of national, religious and gendered identities in Jordan today. Her research interests also include women and development, women and work, gender and education, civic education, and development aid to the Middle East and North Africa. >> external link

   

• Madeleine Albright | Mortara Center for International Studies

  Madeleine Albright is the Mortara Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. During the Clinton administration, Albright first served as the U.S. Representative to the United Nations and later as the first female U.S. Secretary of State. As the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) made its way through Congress, then Secretary of State Albright originally opposed it, arguing that it would create a hierarchy of human rights. But Congress passed IRFA and President Clinton signed it; Albright was the first Secretary of State to implement the act. Since leaving office, Albright has changed her mind and has written about the importance of religion in foreign affairs. She is the author, among others, of The Mighty and the Albright: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs (2006). She is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a PhD from Columbia University. >> external link

   

• Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer | Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies

  Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer is Research Professor in the Center for East European and Russian Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Georgetown University. Professor Balzer's research is in social theory, inter-ethnic relations, religion, the growth of nationalism, and anthropology of the Russian Federation. Her extensive fieldwork has focused on Siberia and Central Asia. She has taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania, and held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard, Columbia, and the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center. She is editor of the journal Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia, and the books Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia; Shamanism: Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central Asia (M.E. Sharpe, 1997); and Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender and Customary Law (M.E. Sharpe, 1992). She also authored The Tenacity of Ethnicity (Princeton Press, 1999).
  
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• Asoka Bandarage | Department of Government

  Asoka Bandarage is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Government department. Her recent publications include "Sri Lanka" in Governments of the World (MacMillan Reference USA, 2005), and "Ethnic and Religious Tension in the World: A Political-Economic Perspective" in Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations (Routledge, 2006). Ms. Bandarage serves on the boards of a number of publications and professional organizations, including The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics, Critical Asian Studies, and The National Advisory Council on South Asian Affairs. She is also the author of Colonialism in Sri Lanka (Mouton, 1983), Women, Population and Global Crisis (Zed, 1997), and numerous other publications on South Asia, global political-economy, ethnicity, gender, population, ecology and related topics. She is currently working on a book, Beyond Ethnicity: Political-Economy and Cultural Conflict in Sri Lanka.
  
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• Avi Beker | Department of Government

  Avi Beker is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Beker was a member of the Israeli mission to the United Nations (1977-82) and served for twenty years in the World Jewish Congress. Under the auspices of the WJC, he founded the Israel Council for Foreign Relations and the Institute for Research of the WJC, which he subsequently headed. From 2004 to 2007, he lectured to graduate students of Diplomacy and headed the program on Jewish Diplomacy at the school of Government and Policy at Tel Aviv University. In December 2007, Beker received the Boris Smolar Award from the American Jewish Distribution Committee (JDC) for his research studies and essays on international Jewish affairs. He is the author of the forthcoming The Chosen: the History of an Idea and the Anatomy of an Obsession (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008). In November 2007, he participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Berkley Center on "Kinship and Diasporas in International Affairs: The Jews as Paradigmatic Examples."
  
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• Jacques Berlinerblau | School of Foreign Service

  Jacques Berlinerblau is an Associate Professor and Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at the School of Foreign Service. Berlinerblau has published on a wide variety of issues ranging from the composition of the Hebrew Bible, the sociology of heresy, and modern Jewish intellectuals, to African-American and Jewish-American relations and anti- and philo-Semitism. He has published three books, including The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and Thumpin' It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today's Presidential Politics (Westminster John Knox, 2008). Berlinerblau is also a participant in the On Faith website sponsored by Newsweek and the Washington Post. He holds doctorates in ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, and in Sociology.
  
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• John Borelli

  John Borelli is Special Assistant to the President for Interreligious Initiatives at Georgetown University. For 16 years, he was Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, serving as Interim Director from 2001-2002. He staffed the Bishops' Subcommittee on Interreligious Dialogue managing three ongoing regional dialogues with Muslims, one with Buddhists, one with Hindus, and other interreligious projects. He also served on the national ecumenical dialogues with Orthodox Christians and with Anglicans, and facilitated other ecumenical activities.

   

• Philip Boroughs, S.J. | Father

  As Georgetown University's Vice President for Mission and Ministry, Philip L. Boroughs, S.J. oversees the work of Campus Ministry and Georgetown University Hospital's Pastoral Care program, and develops other faculty, staff, and student initiatives in support of the University's Catholic and Jesuit character and identity. In addition to his work on numerous University boards and committees, Fr. Boroughs offers retreats and seminars to students, faculty, staff and alums, and travels widely for the University. Previously, he was Rector of the Jesuit Community at Seattle University, and he has taught at both Gonzaga University and Seattle University. Fr. Boroughs has a PhD in Christian Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, an STL from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, an MDiv from the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago, and a BA from Gonzaga University. He entered the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus in 1967 and was ordained a priest in 1978.

   

• Daniel Brumberg | Department of Government

  Daniel Brumberg is an Associate Professor of Government and Co-Director of Democracy and Governance Studies at Georgetown University. He also serves as Acting Director of the United States Institute of Peace's Muslim World Initiative, where he directs a number of programs on democracy and political change in the Muslim world. Brumberg is a former senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment's Democracy and Rule of Law Project (2003–04). Brumberg previously was a Jennings Randolph senior fellow at USIP, where he pursued a study of power sharing in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. In 1997, Brumberg was a Mellon junior fellow at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at the International Forum on Democratic Studies. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University and a visiting fellow in the Middle East Program in the Jimmy Carter Center, and has also taught at the University of Chicago and Sciences Po, Paris. He received his B.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His books include Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and Islam and Democracy in the Middle East, co-edited with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
  
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• Francisca Cho

  Professor Francisca Cho is an Associate Professor in the Theology Department of Georgetown University. She works in the area of East Asian Buddhism and culture, particularly through non-canonical media like fiction, poetry, and film. Her courses include Introduction to Buddhism, Buddhism and Science, Religion and Aesthetics, Religion and Cultural Theory, and Chinese Religious Thought. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion and History of Religion, respectively, from the University of Chicago.

   

• Gay Cima | Department of English

  Gay Gibson Cima is a Professor of English and the former Director of the Human Rights Initiative at Georgetown University. Her book Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race (Cambridge University Press, 2006) illuminates African, African American, European, and European American women’s strategies for entering early debates on human rights. Cima has published widely on eighteenth and nineteenth-century feminist theatre history and practice as well as contemporary performance theory and criticism. Her book Performing Women was published by Cornell University Press in 1993. Cima earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University, her M.A. from Northwestern University, and her B.A. from the University of Nebraska.
  
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• Ahmad Dallal | Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

  Ahmad Dallal is an Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Chair of the Arabic and Islamic Studies Department at Georgetown University. He earned his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Columbia University. His research covers the history of the disciplines of learning in Muslim societies, including both the exact and the traditional sciences, as well as early modern and modern Islamic thought and movements. His books and articles focus on the history of science, Islamic revivalist thought, and Islamic law. He is currently finishing a book-length comparative study of eighteenth-century Islamic reform entitled Islam Without Europe, Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought. He has also written essays and lectured on the background and aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
  
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• John J. DeGioia | President

  John J. DeGioia is President of Georgetown University and a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. As the first lay president of a Jesuit university, DeGioia places emphasis on sustaining and strengthening Georgetown's Catholic and Jesuit identity and its responsibility to serve as a voice and an instrument for justice. He has also been an advocate for inter-religious dialogue. He is a member of the Order of Malta, a lay religious order of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to serving the sick and the poor. President DeGioia is a board member of the American Council on Education, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the Campus Compact, and is an executive committee member of the Council on Competitiveness.
  
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• Patrick Deneen | Department of Government

  Patrick J. Deneen is an Associate Professor of Government and holds the Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair in Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Odyssey of Political Theory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) and Democratic Faith (Princeton University Press, 2005), as well as co-editor of a book entitled Democracy's Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). He is currently working on a book examining the concept of the division of labor in Western political thought. In 2006, Deneen became the Founding Director of "The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy," an initiative that seeks to preserve and extend understanding of America's founding principles and their roots in Western philosophical and religious traditions.
  
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• E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Georgetown Public Policy Institute

  E.J. Dionne is an influential columnist, University Professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His book Why Americans Hate Politics (1991), won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee. He is also author of Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge (2004), and They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate The Next Political Era (1996). In January 2008 Dionne spoke at “Debating Jim Wallis's book The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America,” an event co-sponsored by the Berkley Center and Sojourners.
  
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• John Esposito | Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

  John L. Esposito is a University Professor, Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Professor of Islamic Studies, and the Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. A widely recognized authority on contemporary Islam and Islamic politics, Esposito served as the president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America as well as the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, and is currently a member of the High Level Group of the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations. His more than thirty books include Islam: The Straight Path (2004), Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam (2002), and The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? (1999). Esposito was the 2005 recipient of the American Academy of Religion's Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. He received an MA from St. John's University and a PhD from Temple University. >> external link

   

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• Melissa Fisher

  Melissa Fisher is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University. Her forthcoming book, Wall Street Women: Gender, Class, and Power in America, is an ethnographic historical account of the first generation of women on Wall Street. Melissa published some of her findings on Wall Street women in a volume she co-edited, entitled Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy (Duke University Press, 2006). The volume brings together ethnographies which explore how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. Melissa will be an Invited Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Center for Organizational Research at the University of Stockholm in May 2009. Her next research project will focus on gender, faith, investment and communities in the U.S.
  
  

   

• Ariel Glucklich | Department of Theology

  Ariel Glucklich is a Professor of Theology at Georgetown University and offers courses in Hinduism, Psychology of Religion and Anthropology of Religion. He is interested in a wide range of issues including classical Indian law, Hindu myths and rituals, contemporary folk religion and magic in Banaras, theories and methods in the study of religion, phenomenology, neuro-psychology and the evolutionary psychology of religious experience. His books include The Strides of Vishnu: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2008); Climbing Chamundi Hill: 1001 Steps with a Storyteller and a Reluctant Pilgrim (HarperCollins, 2007); and Vishnu’s Footsteps: Exploring the Sacred Sites, Texts, and Myths at the Heart of Hinduism (HarperCollins, 2005). He is currently researching the way that religious emotions are implicated in human self-destructiveness.
  
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• Timothy Godfrey, S.J. | Father

  Fr. Timothy Godfrey, S.J. is Director of Campus Ministry at Georgetown University. Prior to assuming his duties at Campus Ministry, Fr. Godfrey was pastor of St. Patrick Church in Oakland, California, where he served as a mentor of Jesuit and lay students in pastoral ministry. He holds Master's degrees in Divinity and in Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley; a Master of Social Work degree from Washington University in St. Louis; and a Bachelor of Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Louis University. Fr. Godfrey was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and entered the Missouri Province of the Society of Jesus in 1973.

   

• Eugene Goussikindey, S.J. | Visiting Fellow

  Rev. Eugene Goussikindey, S.J., has devoted much of his life as a Jesuit and scholar to research and teaching around questions of religion, politics, and peace. He is the founder of the Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations in Nairobi, Kenya. Rev. Goussikindey has published both on theology and on Church-State relations, development, and interreligious dialogue in Africa. Goussikindey was a visiting fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace at the University of Notre Dame for the 2005-06 academic year. In 2006 he gave several lectures at Georgetown on the invitation of the Jesuit Community, the Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Peace, and the Woodstock Theological Center.
  
  

   

• Elzbieta Gozdziak | Institute for the Study of International Migration

   

• Yvonne Haddad | Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

  Yvonne Haddad is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Professor Haddad's fields of expertise include twentieth-century Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; and Islam in North America and the West. Currently, Professor Haddad is conducting research on Muslims in the West and on Islamic Revolutionary Movements. She has co-authored Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today (2006) and co-edited Muslims on the Americanization Path? (2000) and Islam, Gender, and Social Change (1997), all from Oxford University Press. She also teaches courses on Muslim-Christian Relations and Arab Intellectuals. >> external link

   

• Paul Heck | Department of Theology

  Paul L. Heck is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University. His publications on Islam treat conceptions of jihad, moral dimensions of mysticism, religious renewal, scripture-based politics, eschatological sensibilities, and the transmission of religious knowledge. He is the author of The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization (Brill, 2002) and has edited a collection of articles on “Sufism and Politics,” forthcoming shortly as an issue of Princeton Papers. Current projects include two monographs: The Theology of Islamic Politics, which looks at the connection of faith outlook and political attitudes in Islam, and The Crisis of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization, which is a full treatment of the phenomenon of skepticism in Islam and the varied responses to it.
  
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• Yahya Hendi | Imam

  Imam Yayha Hendi is Muslim Chaplain at Georgetown University, which was the first American university to hire a full-time Muslim chaplain. As chaplain, Imam Hendi leads Qiyamul-lail and Friday prayers, counsels students on their academic, religious, and social issues, and offers retreats for both Muslim and non-Muslim students. A consistent advocate for interfaith dialogue and interreligious relations, Imam Hendi was one of the first American Muslim leaders to meet with President Bush after the 11 September attacks.  He has also written numerous publications on many topics, including women in Islam, women and gender relations in Islam, the coming of the Messiah, and religion and Islam in the United States. In addition to his duties at Georgetown, he serves as the Imam of the Islamic Society of Frederick, MD, the Muslim Chaplain at the National Naval Medical Center, and the spokesperson of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of North America.  He holds a Master's degree in Comparative Religions from Hartford Seminary, CT and is currently working on his PhD in Comparative Religion at Georgetown. >> external link

   

• Patricia Hewlin

  Dr. Patricia Hewlin is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior at the McDonough School of Business. She researches the ways organization members express and suppress aspects of their identities, such as their personal values and beliefs at work. She also researches organizational change, stigmatization and discrimination at the workplace. Her work is published in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Research on Managing Groups and Teams, and Group and Organizational Management Journal. She has been featured in Black Enterprise Magazine, BET News, and has been quoted in several online newspapers such as The National, Detroit Free Press, Indianapolis Star, Arizona Republic, and the Des Moines Register. Her corporate background is in the financial services industry where she received numerous awards for excellence in management and community relations. Corporate affiliations include Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and the Municipal Credit Union. She received her Ph. D. in business adminstration from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Dr. Hewlin also holds a Master's Degree of Business Adminstration in finance from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Spanish and English from Binghamton University. She is a member of the National Black MBA Association and the Academy of Management.
  
  

   

• Steven Heydemann | Government Masters Programs

  Steven Heydemann is the former Director of Georgetown University's Center for Democracy and Civil Society and head of the Department of Government's Master's Program, as well as a research associate professor. He focuses on democratization and economic reform in the Middle East. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1990. Heydemann recently completed a multi-year collaborative research project on informal networks and the politics of economic reform in the Middle East, resulting in the volume Networks of Privilege: The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East (Palgrave Press, 2004). He also wrote Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970 (Cornell University Press, 1999), and edited War, Institutions and Social Change in the Middle East (University of California Press, 2000). Heydemann has served on the board of directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, and of the Foundation on Democratization and Political Change in the Middle East.
  
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• Lise Howard | Government Masters Programs

  Lise Morjé Howard is the Director of the Master of Arts Program in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown University and a research assistant professor of Government. Her research and teaching interests include international relations, conflict resolution, peacekeeping, and area studies of the Balkans and sub-Saharan Africa. Her book, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars, was published by Cambridge University Press in January 2008. She is also working on projects related to the norm of negotiated settlements in civil wars and mediation with rebel leaders. Dr. Howard has received awards for her work on peacekeeping from the Soroptimist International, the Barnard College Alumnae Association, and the James D. Kline Fund. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and her A.B. in Soviet Studies magna cum laude from Barnard College. >> external link

   

• Shireen Hunter | Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

  Shireen Hunter is Director of the Carnegie Project on Reformist Islam at Georgetown University's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. >> external link

   

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• Mehran Kamrava | School of Foreign Service-Qatar

  Mehran Kamrava is the Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Kamrava has written The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War (University of California Press, 2005), The New Voices of Islam: Reforming Politics and Modernity: A Reader (I.B. Tauris, 2006), Politics & Society in the Developing World (Routledge, 2000), and more. Kamrava co-convened the December 2007 symposium on “Global Development and Faith-Inspired Organizations in the Muslim World,” co-sponsored by the Berkley Center.
  
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• Stephen J. King | Department of Government

  Stephen J. King is an Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is a comparativist with a particular focus on the Middle East and Africa, and his research and teaching interests center on the political economy of late development. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards including the SSRC International Predissertation Grant, Fulbright Research Grant, and a Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Professor King is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of market reform in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria. Professor King is the author of Liberalization Against Democracy: The Local Politics of Economic Reform in Tunisia (Indiana University Press, 2003) and has published several articles on political development in North Africa and on the politics of economic reform.
  
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• Charles King | Department of Government

  Charles King is the Ion Ratiu Chair of Romanian Studies in the School of Foreign Service and Professor of Government at Georgetown University. In November 2007 he participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Berkley Center on "Kinship and Diasporas in International Affairs: The Jews as Paradigmatic Examples." King is an expert on eastern Europe, nationalism, and ethnic conflict. King has an M.Phil. and a D.Phil from Oxford University in Russian and East European Studies and Politics, respectively. He is the author of The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford 2008), The Black Sea: A History (Oxford 2004) and The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture (Hoover Institution 2000). >> external link

   

• Carol Lancaster | Mortara Center for International Studies

  Carol Lancaster is the Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown University and head of its new Initiative on International Development, as well as an associate professor in the School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government. She is currently serving as interim Dean of the School of Foreign Service. She writes on the politics of foreign aid, the politics of development and development in Africa. Her newest book is Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2006). She has been a consultant for the United Nations and the World Bank and has had an extensive career in government. She serves on the board of World Education, Women in International Security, the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Vital Voices and the Center for Global Development. Her current research centers on Politics, Poverty and Prosperity in Africa.
  
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• Mark Lance

  Mark Lance is a Professor at Georgetown University in both the Department of Philosophy and the Program on Justice and Peace. Professor Lance works mostly in the areas of philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophical logic, and metaphysics, but writes as well on anarchist theory and applied issues of social justice activism. He has published over 30 articles on such topics as relevance logic, normativity, meaning, Bayesianism, and sexual identity. He is currently writing books on anarchism and rational community, understanding, and defeasible laws (with Margaret Little), as well as articles on such topics as reasons and causes, semantic paradoxes, the foundations of set theory, and consensus decision making. His most recent book is 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons, co-authored with Rebecca Kukla, and forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Lance earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, and held a three year post-doctoral fellowship at Syracuse University. >> external link

   

• John Langan, S.J.

  John Langan is a Jesuit priest with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He also holds graduate degrees in classics and theology. Since 1987 he has been the Rose Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown. His research interests include ethics and international affairs, especially applications of just war theory; human rights in theory and practice; capital punishment; Catholic social teaching; the place of religion in liberal political thought; and the ethical theories of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. He is working on a manuscript on the ethics of humanitarian intervention. Fr. Langan has edited Catholic Universities in Church and Society (Georgetown University Press, 1993) and A Moral Vision for America (Georgetown University Press, 1998).
  
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• Patrick Laude | Department of French; School of Foreign Service-Qatar

  Patrick Laude is a Professor of French at Georgetown University, having arrived in 1991. He is currently on the faculty of the School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He earned a M.A. in comparative philosophy from the University of Paris IV Sorbonne and, in 1985, a doctorate in French literature from Indiana University. Professor Laude'’s interests lie in the relationship between poetry and mysticism, and in the Western representations and interpretations of Asian contemplative, mystical and wisdom traditions. He has extensively written and lectured on figures of European spirituality such as Jeanne Guyon, Simone Weil, Louis Massignon and Frithjof Schuon. Most recently, he published Pray Without Ceasing: The Way of the Invocation in World Religion (World Wisdom 2006) and Divine Play, Sacred Laughter and Spiritual Understanding (Palgrave McMillan 2005). >> external link

   

• Leo Lefebure | Department of Theology

  Leo Lefebure is the Matteo Ricci, S.J., Professor of Theology at Georgetown University and is a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. He is the author of four books, including The Buddha and the Christ and Revelation, the Religions, and Violence. He is a member of the Board of Directors at the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies and is an advisor to Monastic Interreligious Dialogue. He is a former member of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Dialogues of Catholics and Muslims and a current member of the Georgetown University Muslim-Catholic Dialogue. He is also an associate editor of Chicago Studies and editor-at-large for The Christian Century. >> external link

   

• Robert Lieber

  Robert Lieber is Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University, where he previously served as Chair of the Government Department. He is an authority on American foreign policy and U.S. relations with the Middle East and Europe and he has been a foreign policy advisor in several presidential campaigns and consultant to the State Department. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. at Harvard. Dr. Lieber has written The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2007); No Common Power: Understanding International Relations (2001); The Oil Decade (1986); Oil and the Middle East War (1976); Contemporary Politics Europe (co-author, 1976); Theory and World Politics (1972); and British Politics and European Unity (1970). >> external link

   

• Gasper Lo Biondo, S.J. | Woodstock Theological Center

  Gasper F. Lo Biondo, S.J., is the Director of the Woodstock Theological Center. He received his Ph.D. from The American University. His areas of interest include development in the Third World and dialogue on matters of mutual interest among North and Latin Americans. He has recently authored “Microenterprise Development in El Salvador: Village Banking, Changing Values, and Informal Education” (1997) and “North-South Cultural Dialogue: Our Response to the Gift of Internationality” (1997). He is Coordinator with Dr. Rita Rodriguez of Woodstock's program on Global Economy and Cultures. He worked in Chile in a Jesuit High School, as associate pastor in an inner city barrio parish of Santiago, and consultant to grassroots organizations. He also served as Director of National Jesuit Social Ministries Office (1979-1984) and social-pastoral ministries assistant to the Maryland Jesuit Provincial (1984-1991).
  
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• Daniel Madigan, S.J. | Father

  Daniel Madigan, S.J., is an Australian Jesuit priest who joined Georgetown's Department of Theology in 2008. He is also a Senior Fellow of The Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. In 2007-8 he was International Visiting Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown, and continues there as a Senior Fellow directing a project on Christian theologies that are responsive to Islam. Before moving to Georgetown he taught in Rome (2000-7), where he was was the founder and director (2002-7) of the Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures at the Pontifical Gregorian University. His main fields of teaching and research are Qur'anic Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and particularly Muslim-Christian relations. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University, Ankara University, Boston College and Central European University.
  
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• Susan Martin | Institute for the Study of International Migration

  Susan Martin, Georgetown University's Donald G. Herzberg Associate Professor of International Migration, serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service. An expert on immigration and refugee policy, Dr. Martin came to Georgetown after having served as the Executive Director of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. Prior to joining the Commission's staff, Professor Martin was the Director of Research and Programs at the Refugee Policy Group, a Washington-based center for analysis of U.S. and international refugee policy and programs. Professor Martin has authored Refugee Women, as well as numerous monographs and articles on immigration and refugee policy. Dr. Martin received her B.A. from Rutgers University, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. >> external link

   

• Dennis McAuliffe | Department of Italian; Catholic Studies Program

  Dennis McAuliffe is the Director of the Catholic Studies Program at Georgetown University, having previously taught Italian Language and Literature at Toronto University for twenty-three years. His area of expertise is Medieval and Renaissance literature. He has a special interest in women writers and is currently working on a database of biographical and bibliographical information of more than two hundred women who wrote from 1200 to 1600. McAuliffe has taught all levels of Italian language and all periods of Italian literature, and he has spoken and written about Italian Medieval and Renaissance authors, especially Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547), and Boccaccio (1313-1375). >> external link

   

• Jane McAuliffe

  Jane McAuliffe is the current President of Bryn Mawr College and former Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University, where she was appointed Dean in 1999. A former senior fellow at Georgetown's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, McAuliffe is a scholar of Islam who specializes on the Qur'an and its exegesis. She is a past president of the American Academy of Religion and the author of numerous publications including Qur'anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis (Cambridge, 1991), Abbasid Authority Affirmed: The Early Years of al-Mansur (SUNY, 1995), and With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Oxford, 2003). She received her master's in religious studies and PhD in Islamic studies from the University of Toronto.
  
  

   

• Dennis McManus

  Fr. Dennis D. McManus received his bachelor’s degree in Classical Languages and Philosophy from St. Mary’s College of California in 1975. He completed a Master’s degree in historical ethics at Georgetown University and a doctorate in historical theology (patrology) at Drew University. He has taught in secondary schools and universities for thirty years, including courses in theology, liturgy, medieval literature and inter-religious dialogue. At present, he is Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. He serves as Managing Editor of Paulist Press’ Ancient Christian Writers series, a patristics publication of over fifty volumes. Together with Rabbi Leon Klenicki of the Anti-Defamation League of New York, he is co-editor of a forthcoming series from the Stimulus Foundation entitled, The Word Set Free: Preaching the Lectionary Free of Anti-Judaism. From l995 to 1998, he was translation editor of Drew University’s patristic commentary on the bible, The Ancient Christian Commentary, published by Varsity Press.

   

• Marilyn McMorrow | School of Foreign Service

  Marilyn McMorrow, RSCJ is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She is an expert on political and normative theory of international relations, with emphases on human rights, poverty alleviation, just war theory, Catholic social teaching in international relations, and the role of the Nobel Peace Prize in world politics.
  
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• Vincent Miller | Department of Theology

  Vincent Miller is an Associate Professor in the Theology department  at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses in Catholic theology and religion and culture. His research focuses on the question of tradition as a process – how religious belief is handed on through time and across cultures. His recent work Consuming Religion considered the ways in which consumer culture transforms religious belief and practice. He is now beginning a similar consideration of the religious effects of globalization. >> external link

   

• Joshua Mitchell | Department of Government; School of Foreign Service-Qatar

  Joshua Mitchell is a Professor of Political Theory at Georgetown University. He has been Chairman of the Government Department and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at SFS-Qatar. Mitchell’s interest lies in the relationship between political thought and theology in the West. He has authored Not by Reason Alone: Religion, History, and Identity in Early Modern Political Thought (University of Chicago Press 1993), The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and American Future (University of Chicago Press 1995), and Plato's Fable: On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times (Princeton University Press 2006). He is working on two manuscripts: Tocqueville in Arabia, and Reinhold Niebuhr and the Politics of Hope. Mitchell has published in the Review of Politics, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Religion, APSR, and Political Theory. >> external link

   

• Fathali Moghaddam | Department of Psychology

  Fathali Moghaddam is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown and is an expert on culture and intergroup conflict, with a particular focus on the psychology of globalization, radicalization, and terrorism. He is an expert in the areas of culture and behavior, multiculturalism, collective aggression, terrorism, perceived injustice, contextualized democracy, and health and culture. He is author of Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context (American Psychological Association Press 2008), and co-edited In Global Conflict Resolution Through Positioning Analysis (Springer 2008). He was awarded the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence, Division 48 of the American Psychological Association.
  
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• Andrew Natsios

  Andrew Natsios, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Advisor on International Development in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, is a leading practitioner in the field of development. He most recently served as the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan. From 2001 to 2006, he was the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which oversees U.S. international economic development and humanitarian assistance. As Administrator, he managed USAID’s reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan which totaled more than $14 billion in four years. He has also served as the director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and as Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance. From 1993 to 1998, Natsios was vice president of World Vision U.S., the largest faith-based non-governmental organization in the world. Natsios is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy and humanitarian emergencies and two books: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997) and The Great North Korean Famine (U.S. Institute of Peace, 2001). >> external link

   

• Daniel Nexon | Department of Government

  Daniel Nexon is an Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University, where he specializes in the comparative-historical analysis of international politics, international relations theory, and international security. His current research tackles questions of religious contention and the politics of empires. Professor Nexon's published work covers issues in international-relations theory, American foreign policy, the politics of religious contention, and the relationship between popular culture and world politics. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Dialogue IO, the Review of International Studies, and the Review of International Political Economy. His first book, Religious Conflict, International Change, and the Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. >> external link

   

• James O'Donnell

  James O'Donnell is Provost at Georgetown University. In addition to being an innovator in the use of networked information technology in higher education, he has published widely on the history and culture of the late antique Mediterranean world. He has served as a Director of the Medieval Academy of America and is a Fellow of the Academy. O'Donnell has served as a Director and as President of the American Philological Association (APA) and serves as Delegate of the APA to the American Council of Learned Societies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the ACLS. His most recent book is Augustine: A New Biography (HarperCollins 2005). O'Donnell holds an A.B. from Princeton and a Ph.D from Yale.

   

• Carol Q. O'Neil

  Carol Q. O'Neil is the Associate Dean (Academic Administration) at the Georgetown University Law Center.  Her areas of responsibility include curriculum development, JD adjunct faculty, and student academic counseling.  Her committee work includes positions on the Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee, the Law Center's Teaching Committee, Technology Committee, Self Study Committee, and the Community and Spirituality Committee.  O'Neil earned her J.D. at Georgetown, where she received the Dean's Certificate for Special Service to the Law Center Community and was assistant editor of The Tax Lawyer.  Prior to her position as dean she also worked in private practice.
  
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• Felicitas Opwis

  Felicitas Opwis joined the Georgetown faculty in 2005 as an Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Prior to Georgetown, she taught at Wake Forest University, Yale University, and Yale School of Law. She graduated with an MA degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and received her Ph. D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies in 2001 from Yale University. At Georgetown she is teaching predominantly graduate courses on Islamic law, hadith (the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad), and the biographical literature of Islam. Her primary research looks at the development of legal theory in its historical context and the relationship between religious law and political authority. Recent publications include articles on the concept of public interest in classical and contemporary Islamic legal theory; legal change and the construction of authority within the schools of law; and whether the changes that Islamic legal theory underwent in the modern period amount to a “reformation.” She is currently working on a book that traces the development of the concept of public interest in Islamic legal theory from the 9th to the 14th century.

   

• Joseph Palacios

  Joseph Palacios is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Palacios is a sociologist of political culture whose research interests include: Latin American and Latino Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Political Culture, Civil Society, and Social Theory. He is part of the graduate faculty of the School of Foreign Service's Latin American Studies Program specializing in political culture and religion in Latin America. He is the author of The Catholic Social Imagination: Activism and the Just Society in Mexico and the United States (Chicago 2007). Palacios has done continuous research on the Catholic Church in Mexico and the United States since 1996. In 2006 he has expanded his research on Mexico and the social doctrine of religion to include Chile and Argentina. He has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for Chile and will teach a doctoral seminar on "Religion and Society in the United States" and do research at Universidad de Santiago's Institute for American Studies from March-July 2009. In March 2007 he delivered the Faculty Seminar on Culture, Religion, and Globalization sponsored by the Berkley Center, speaking on "Free Trade Religion: American Civil Religions and the Formation of Latin American Leaders (Conceptualizing the Project)."

   

• Jeffrey Peck | Communication, Culture and Technology

  Jeffrey Peck is a Professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology Program at Georgetown University and is a Senior Fellow in Residence at AICGS. His research focuses on questions of national and minority identities, particularly German-Jewish life since unification and contemporary responses to the Holocaust in a transatlantic context. His work has moved increasingly towards transatlantic questions about nationality, ethnicity, religion, culture, and politics. His most recent books include Multiculturalism in Transit: A German-American Exchange, edited with Klaus Milich (Berghahn 1998) and the forthcoming Being Jewish in the New Germany (Rutgers University Press). He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1974, and he completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979.

   

• Peter Phan | Department of Theology

  Peter C. Phan is the Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought in Theology. A native of Vietnam, he emigrated as a refugee to the U.S.A. in 1975. He obtained three doctorates, the Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Universitas Pontificia Salesiana, Rome, and the Doctor Philosophy and the Doctor of Divinity from the University of London. He is the first non-Anglo to be elected President of Catholic Theological Society of America. His publications deal with the theology of icon in Orthodox theology; patristic theology; eschatology; the history of mission in Asia and liberation, inculturation, and interreligious dialogue. In addition, he has edited some 20 volumes and is general editor of a multi-volume series entitled Theology in Global Perspective for Orbis Books and a multi-volume series entitled Ethnic American Pastoral Spirituality for Paulist Press. >> external link

   

• Jessica Raper

  Jessica Raper is the Special Assistant for Policy Planning to the President of Georgetown University. She participated in the November 2007 presentation of the Berkley Center’s report, “Faith Communities Engage the HIV/AIDS Crisis.” She is spear-heading the efforts of Georgetown faculty, students, and other partners working together in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Previously, Ms. Raper was an attorney in private practice, with specialty areas including international and complex business litigation, and a Staff Attorney at NASD Dispute Resolution, Inc. She received her J.D./M.A. in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University School of Law and her A.B. in Political Science from Duke University. Ms. Raper has published on dispute resolution processes in Rwanda.

   

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• Thomas Reese, S.J. | Father

  Father Thomas Reese, S.J., is a Senior Research Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Canter. He has a M.A. in political science from St. Louis University (1968), a M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley (1974), and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (1976). While previously at Wookstock from 1985 to 1998, Fr. Reese wrote three books: Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Church (Harper & Row, 1989), A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (Sheed & Ward, 1992), and Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church (Harvard University Press, 1997). Inside the Vatican has been translated into Dutch, German, Polish, Korean, and Portuguese. >> external link

   

• Aviel Roshwald

  Aviel Roshwald is a Professor of History at Georgetown University, where he has worked since 1991. In November 2007 he participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Berkley Center on "Kinship and Diasporas in International Affairs: The Jews as Paradigmatic Examples." Roshwald’s interests include the comparative history of ethnic politics and nationalism in Europe and the Middle East, and the history of 19th- and 20th-century European international relations. He is the author of The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (Cambridge 2006) and Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East (Routledge 2001). Roshwald holds an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard.

   

• Henry Schwarz

  Henry Schwarz is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University. He is an expert in literary theory and cultural studies; Marxism, theory of history; South Asian literature; and film. Schwarz earned his Ph.D. from Duke University, an M.A. from Rutgers University and B.A. from McGill University. Schwarz has written Contributions to Bengal Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Approach (1998); Blackwell Companion to Postcolonial Studies (1999); Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1997); Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (1996); and various articles on colonialism, Third World literature, Peace Studies, and literary and cultural theory in general. >> external link

   

• Angela Senander

  Angela Senander joined the faculty at the Washington Theological Union in 2004. She taught at St. Joseph College in West Hartford, CT from 2001-2002 and at Boston College from 2002-2004. Her doctoral dissertation was "Toward Liberation from Abortion: A Catholic Reflection on Abortion in the United States," written under the direction of Lisa Sowle Cahill. Prior to graduate school, she taught moral theology and social justice at a Catholic high school and worked as an intern at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. >> external link

   

• Irfan Shahid

   

• Yossi Shain | Department of Government

  Yossi Shain holds a dual appointment at Georgetown University and Tel Aviv University. At Georgetown he is a Professor of Comparative Government and Diaspora Politics and the first Director of the Center for Jewish Civilization. At Tel Aviv University he is Professor of Political Science and Head of the Hartog School of Government. Shain is the author of Kinship and Diasporas in International Affairs (Michigan 2007), The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State (Wesleyan 1989); Between States: Interim Governments and Democratic Transitions with Juan J. Linz (Cambridge 1995); and Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the U.S. and Their Homelands (Cambridge 1999). In November 2007 he participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Berkley Center on "Kinship and Diasporas in International Affairs: The Jews as Paradigmatic Examples." >> external link

   

• Samer Shehata | Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

  Samer Shehata is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He teaches courses on Islamist politics, comparative and Middle East politics and political economy, US policy toward the Middle East, Egyptian politics and society, and culture and politics in the Arab world. In addition, Dr. Shehata served as Acting Director of the Master of Arts in Arab Studies Program from 2002-2003. Shehata's research interests include Middle East politics, US foreign policy, Islamist politics, elections under authoritarianism, social class and inequality, labor, globalization and its impact on the Arab world and developing countries, development, ethnography and the Hajj. His writings have appeared in The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Policy, The Georgetown Journal of International Affiars, MERIP, Arab Reform Bulletin, Slate, Salon, Al Hayat, Al Ahram Weekly and other publications.
  
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• Nancy Sherman

  Nancy Sherman is University Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown Law School. In 1997-1999, she served as the first Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. She is the author of Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind(Oxford University Press 2005); Making A Necessity of Virtue: Aristotle and Kant on Virtue (Cambridge University Press 1997); The Fabric of Character: Aristotle’s Theory of Virtue (Oxford University Press 1989). She is also the editor of Critical Essays on the Classics: Aristotle’s Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield 1999). Nancy Sherman has written over 30 published articles in ethics, history of moral philosophy, ancient philosophy, military ethics, moral psychology, and the emotions. >> external link

   

• Amira Sonbol | Department of History

  Amira Sonbol is a Professor of History at Georgetown University. She specializes in the history of modern Egypt, Islamic history and law, women, gender and Islam and is the author of several books including The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism (2000); Women, the Family and Divorce Laws in Islamic History (1996); The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt: 1800-1922 (1991); Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor and Law (2003); and Beyond the Exotic: Muslim Women's Histories (2005), all from Syracuse University Press. Professor Sonbol is Editor-in-Chief of HAWWA: the Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World published by E.J. Brill and Co-Editor of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, a quarterly journal co-published with Selly Oak Colleges (UK). She teaches courses on the History of Modern Egypt, Women and Law, and Islamic Civilization. >> external link

   

• Elizabeth Stanley | School of Foreign Service

  Elizabeth A.Stanley is an Assistant Professor in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government. She previously served as Associate Director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies. She has served in Bosnia, Germany, Macedonia, Italy and Korea as a US Army military intelligence officer, leaving service with the rank of Captain. Her publications include articles, book chapters and monographs about US military innovation, the impact of peace operations on military readiness and force structure, the media and the military, and military professionalism. She is a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Sandia National Laboratories and the US Army Science Board. She has also served on the executive board of Women in International Security (WIIS). >> external link

   

• Christopher Steck, S.J. | Reverend

  Christopher Steck, S.J., is an Associate Professor in the Theology Department at Georgetown. He is an expert on Christian ethics and recently authored The Ethical Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar (Herder and Herder, 2001). Steck heads the Catholic Students Association at Georgetown and is heavily involved in Campus Ministry programs.
  
  

   

• David Steinberg

  David Steinberg is a specialist on Burma-Myanmar, North Korea and South Korea, Southeast Asia and US policy in Asia. He is Distinguished Professor and Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University. He was previously a Representative of the Asia Foundation in Korea; Distinguished Professor of Korea Studies, Georgetown University; and President of the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs. Earlier, as a member of the Senior Foreign Service, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Department of State, he was Director for Technical Assistance in Asia and the Middle East, and Director for Philippines, Thailand, and Burma Affairs. He spent three years in Thailand with the USAID Regional Development Office. He is the author of thirteen books and monographs, including: "Turmoil in Burma: Contested Legitimacies in Myanmar" (2006), "Burma: The State of Myanmar" (2001), "Stone Mirror: Reflections on Contemporary Korea" (2002),and "The Republic of Korea. Economic Transformation and Social Change"(1989). He has authored over 100 articles and book chapters, and some 250 op-eds. Professor Steinberg was educated at Dartmouth College, Lingnan University (Canton, China), Harvard University, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

   

• Siva Subramanian

  K. N. Siva Subramanian is Chief, Division of Neonatology (Neonatal Perinatal Medicine) and Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology, as well as a member of the Interreligious Dialogue on Education at the Woodstock Theological Center. His specialties are in the fields of pediatrics and Neonatology. His special interests include infant mortality reduction, prematurity, low birth weight, trace element kinetics in preterm and term infants, and bioethical dilemmas. He is currently the Co-Chair of the Research Committee at GUMC. He is a member of the Georgetown Hospital Ethics Committee and the team of Consultants. He participates in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine program at GUMC.

   

• Lucia Volk

   

• John Voll | Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

  John Voll is Professor of Islamic History and Associate Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. He has lived in Cairo, Beirut, and Sudan and has traveled widely in the Muslim world. The second edition of his book Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World appeared in 1994 (Syracuse University Press). He is co-author, with John L. Esposito, of Islam and Democracy (1996) and Makers of Contemporary Islam (2001), both from Oxford University Press, and is editor, author, or co-author of six additional books and articles and book chapters on modern Islamic and Sudanese history. In 1991 he received a Presidential Medal in recognition for scholarship on Islam from President Husni Mubarak of Egypt. >> external link

   

• Maria Luise Wagner

   

• Kathleen Maas Weigert

  Kathleen Maas Weigert is the first Director of the Center for Social Justice and a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the Program on Justice & Peace. Her interests are in experiential and service learning education, nonviolence, and education for justice and peace. She co-edited Teaching for Justice: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Peace Studies (American Association of Higher Education 1999) and Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary (Sheed and Ward 2005). She serves on the boards of NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby and CARA (Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate). Dr. Weigert received her M.A. in International Relations from the University of Minnesota and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame. >> external link

   

• Constance Wheeler | Reverend

  Reverend Constance Wheeler is Director of Protestant Chaplaincy at Georgetown University's Campus Ministry. An ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Wheeler leads Protestant worship in the Gospel tradition, serves as spiritual advisor for the Gospel Choir, and conducts Bible study classes for many elements of the University community.  She is also the Senior Pastor of Wayman Good Hope AME Church in Severna Park, Maryland. Rev. Wheeler is a graduate of Howard University School of Divinity, where she received the Fund for Theological Education and Ford Foundation fellowships

   

• Harold White | Rabbi

  Rabbi Harold White is Senior Jewish Chaplain at Georgetown University's Campus Ministry, where he has worked for over 40 years.  As the first full-time Jewish chaplain at a Catholic university, Rabbi White has long fostered Jewish-Christian dialogue in the Washington metropolitan area.  In addition to his interreligious activities, he studies Kabbalism and the Judaic roots of Christian literature, and teaches in the University's Theology Department.  Prior to his appointment at Gergetown, Rabbi White served as the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation Director at American University, as well as s congregational rabbi for Jewish congregations in Dublin, Ireland and Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well as a chaplain for the US Navy.  He completed his undergraduate degree at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and received Rabbinical Ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City.

   

• Constantine White | Very Reverend

  The Very Reverend Constantine White is Orthodox Christian Chaplain at Georgetown University, where he has been since 1986.  In addition to his chaplaincy at Georgetown, the V. Rev. White serves as the dean of St. Nicholas Cathedral, the national cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America, as well as Chancellor of the Diocese of Washington. He has worked extensively with Orthodox clergy and faithful from many of the Orthodox jurisdictions found in North America, including the Greek and Antiochian Archdioceses. A graduate of American University's School of International Service, he obtained his Masters of Divinity at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, NY.

   

• Timothy Wickham-Crowley | Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Latin American Studies Program

  Timothy Wickham-Crowley is Associate Professor of Sociology and the M.A. Program Director for Latin American Studies. In the past 15 years he has taught courses in introduction to sociology, political sociology, social theory, religion, revolution, Latin American societies, states and societies in Latin America, inequality, social movements, comparative sociology, and the sociology of science. He is the author of a dozen articles on guerrillas and revolution. He served as Program Chair of the Latin American Studies Association’s 21st International Congress, held in Chicago in 1998, out of which emerged two books co-edited with Susan Eckstein: What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America (University of California Press 2003) and Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America (Routledge 2003). >> external link

   

• Clyde Wilcox | Department of Government

  Clyde Wilcox is a Professor in the Government Department. His research and teaching interests center on public opinion and electoral behavior, religion and politics, gender politics, the politics of social issues such as abortion, gay rights, and gun control, interest group politics, campaign finance, and science fiction and politics. Most of his research is on American politics, but he also writes on comparative politics. He has authored, coauthored, edited, or co-edited more than 30 books, including The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage, coedited with Craig Rimmerman (University of Chicago Press 2007), and The Values Campaign: The Christian Right in the 2004 Elections, co-edited with John Green and Mark Rozell (Georgetown University Press 2006). He is working on a project on environmental attitudes off the reef in Bonaire. >> external link

   

• Francis Winters | School of Foreign Service

  Francis X. Winters is Professor of Ethics and International Affairs and member of the Core Faculty at the School of Foreign Service. He has been a member of the Council of Foreign Relations since 1986. Professor Winters' areas of expertise include the ethics and dynamics of the Cold War and the logic and apocalyptic risks of the nuclear deterrence strategy of the European (NATO and Warsaw Pact) nations. He wrote The Year of the Hare: America in Vietnam: January 25, 1963-February 15, 1964 (University of Georgia Press 1997) and co-edited and co-authored Ethics and Nuclear Strategy? (Orbis 1977). Professor Winters is currently researching a study on the ethics of the American bombing of Hiroshima. >> external link

   

• Tarik Yousef | Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

  Tarik M. Yousef is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service and Sheikh Al Sabah Professor in Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He specializes in development economics and economic history. His current research interests include the dynamics of labor markets, the political economy of policy reform, development policies in oil-exporting countries and the economic history of Egypt. He is the author of Unlocking the Employment Potential in the Middle East and North Africa: Toward a New Social Contract (World Bank Publications 2003) and the forthcoming Labour Markets in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge 2009). He is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. >> external link

   

• Hasan Ali Yurtsever

  Dr. Hasan Ali Yurtsever is President of the Rumi Forum, an organization founded in 1999 to promote interfaith and intercultural dialogue, and teaches in the Math department at Georgetown. He participated in the symposium on “Global Development and Faith-Inspired Organizations in the Muslim World,” co-sponsored by the Berkley Center, in December 2007. Yurtsever has a long history of participation in the Gulen movement, which began in Turkey under Fethullah Gulen and has spread globally. He lived in its dormitories through his school years and worked as a teacher in its schools, eventually teaching at Fatih University in Istanbul. He moved to the US to teach at Florida International University in 2003 and came to Georgetown in 2004.