Berkley Center

Senior Research Fellow Elisa Massimino was featured in the Washingtonian's list of the 500 Most Influential People of 2023 for her work on pressing the Biden administration to deliver on its promise to put human rights at the center of American foreign policy by closing Guantanamo Bay and holding human rights abusers accountable.

Senior Fellow José Casanova delivered a May 11 keynote address at the Volos Academy for Theological Studies' conference on "Individual and Community in the Wake of the Public Discourse of the Orthodox Church."

Rabbi Dr. Abraham Skorka, a senior research fellow for Jewish studies and Jewish-Christian relations at Georgetown University, received an honorary doctorate from the Department of Theology of the University of Trnava in Slovakia. Pope Francis then sent Skorka, his long-time friend, a letter to congratulate him and recall his commitment to interreligious dialogue, faith, and human rights.

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari will moderate a May 11 book talk on Sikh Nationalism, discussing the Sikh case in a globalized world and the lessons it offers for the comparative study of ethnicity, nations, and nationalism. This event is part of the International Studies Association's religion and international relations book talk series.