Berkley Center

Shaun Casey is a senior fellow with the Luce Project on Religion and Its Publics at the University of Virginia and a Pulaski Institution non-resident fellow. He served as director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and professor of the practice in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 2017 to 2021. He previously was U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs and director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs. He has also served as professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and held positions at the Center for American Progress and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Casey has written on the ethics of the war in Iraq, as well the role of religion in American presidential politics. He is the author of The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (2009) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Theology (forthcoming, with Michael Kessler); he is writing a book on ethics and international politics tentatively titled Niebuhr’s Children. Casey holds a B.A. from Abilene Christian University, MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and M.Div. and Th.D. in religion and society from Harvard Divinity School.

Ernesto Castañeda is an assistant professor of sociology at American University, where he is affiliated with the Center on Health, Risk, and Society and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies. His research focuses on migration, urban issues, health disparities, vulnerable populations, and social movements.

Christian S. Czymara is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he teaches courses on quantitative methodology and empirical studies in the social sciences. His research interests include immigration, ethnic conflicts, political communication, and public opinion.

Martha F. Davis is a professor of law and associate dean for experiential education at Northeastern University School of Law. She is also an affiliated scholar at Lund University’s Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund, Sweden, where she held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in 2015-2016.

Katharine Donato is the Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and the former director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of Gender and International Migration: From Slavery to Present (2015, with Donna Gabaccia). With Shaun Casey she led the Global Refugee and Migration Project at Georgetown University.

Angela S. García is an assistant professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her research examines international migration, law and society, and social policy, focusing on subnational immigration laws and executive administrative action and the consequences of socio-legal inclusion and exclusion for undocumented immigrants.

Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., is the Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Research Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service; a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; and an affiliated professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. His teaching and research deal with human rights, religious and ethical responses to humanitarian crises, and religion in political life from the standpoint of Catholic social thought, theology, and the social sciences. His books include Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition (2024), Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees (2019), Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants (2010) The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics (2003), and The Common Good and Christian Ethics (2002). He has taught often at Hekima University College in Nairobi, Kenya, and he collaborates with Jesuit Refugee Service. From 2020 to 2022 he is a distinguished research associate with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Hollenbach is also a research associate with the Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection in Zambia. Hollenbach is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Gary Lichtenstein is the principal of Quality Evaluation Designs, a consulting firm specializing in education evaluation, research, and policy. His interests include issues on retention and persistence along several segments of the engineering pathway, such as K-12 education, undergraduate retention, and transition into the workforce.