Berkley Center

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari has been recognized by the American Political Science Association for her groundbreaking scholarship which continues to shape how scholars and policymakers understand the role of faith in global affairs. 

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie will participate in an online talk on September 17 with the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago. 

An article in Catholic Standard highlighted the recent trip by Berkley Center Director Thomas Banchoff and Georgetown University students to Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the eightieth anniversary of the bombings. The group from Georgetown were joined by others from Catholic universities around the world to participate in events and dialogue that promote interreligious understanding and advocate for a world without nuclear weapons. 

Senior Fellow Paul Elie was recently featured in a September 6 panel discussion at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC. Drawing on Elie's book The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s (2025), the panel explored the legacy of McCarthyism in the postwar era and reflected on how pop culture and faith converged in the 1980s.