Berkley Center

Al Bertrand is the director of Georgetown University Press. Prior to this role, he spent eight years at Princeton University Press and served as editorial director for John Wiley and Sons in Oxford. He began his career with Blackwell Publishing in 1999 as commissioning editor for Classical Studies and Ancient History.

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.

Carole Sargent, Ph.D., is the author of Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli (Liturgical Press 2022), and the founding director of Georgetown University's Office of Scholarly Publications. With Berkley Center Senior Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., she co-edited A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (2020) and the forthcoming Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (2023), both from Georgetown University Press. She is writing a biography of Sr. Ardeth Platte, O.P., overseen by Sr. Carol Gilbert, O.P.