Berkley Center

Jacob Adams (C’23) majored in history with minors in government and religion, ethics, and world affairs. Following graduation, he works for a magazine on religion and public life.

Ryann Craig is special assistant to the vice president for mission and ministry and director of academic initiatives in Georgetown University's Office of Mission and Ministry. From October 2019 through December 2023 she was the director of student programs and an assistant research professor at the Berkley Center, as well as a faculty fellow at the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the Berkley Center, she worked in academic support and student advising as assistant director of academic support at the Catholic University of America. She recently served as a copy editor for the International Qurʾānic Studies Association’s journal and monograph series (2016-2018) and has been involved in a number of religious minority cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the United States, Germany, and Israel/Palestine. Craig completed her Ph.D. (Catholic University of America) on the use of Quranic proof texts by medieval Christian Arabic and Syriac authors while in residence as a doctoral fellow at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Vasile-Octavian Mihoc of A Contested Coexistence: Insights in Arabic Christianity from Theology to Migration (Harrassowitz, 2020).

Domenic De Santes (C’23) was an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in government with minors in religion, ethics, and world affairs and education, inquiry, and justice. On campus, Domenic enjoyed playing the saxophone in the Pep Band, singing in the Chapel Choir, and leading retreats with Catholic Ministry. In addition, Domenic represented his peers on the College Academic Council, volunteered at a local elementary school, and worked as a student editorial assistant at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs with Communications Director Amy Vander Vliet. 

Kendall Flaharty (C’23) is an undergraduate student in Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in biochemistry with minors in computer science and religion, ethics, and world affairs. Kendall is a tutor for the Chemistry Club and is writing an honors thesis in the Maillard Lab in the biochemistry department. Additionally, Kendall has an academic interest in the Spanish language and Latin America; she studied abroad in Quito, Ecuador, in the summer of 2022.

Isabel Janovsky (C’23) is double majoring in government and French and francophone studies. Her research interests include Belgian multiethnic federalism, the impacts of French colonialism on the environment, and the interactions between Judaism and modernity across both sides of the Atlantic. Isabel is writing her senior French thesis as part of a Doyle Seminar course on francophone feminist thought, examining the feminist and religious philosophies of one of the first female rabbis in France, Delphine Horvilleur.

Samuel Kehoe (C’23) is an undergraduate student in Georgetown College majoring in government with minors in economics and religion, ethics, & world affairs. In addition to his academic focus on political theology and civil religion, Sam is managing director for the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service’s podcast, “Fly On the Wall,” and a trained actor with the Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society.

Gwyneth Murphy (SFS’23) was dual degree student in Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service with a major in international politics and security and a minor in religion, ethics, and world affairs at the undergraduate level and a concentration in terrorism and substate violence in the security studies program at the graduate level. Gwyneth is interested in the intersection of human rights and national security, and she plans to continue to pursue this area through federal service.

Lindsey Parnas (G’23) was a graduate student in the School of Foreign Service, pursuing an M.A. in Arab studies with a focus on intersectional oppression, trauma, and conflict. At the Berkley Center, Lindsey worked as a Doyle Seminars graduate academic assistant and a Doyle Global Dialogue (DGD) student assistant under Director of Student Programs Dr. Ryann Craig.