Berkley Center

Doyle Seminars are small, upper-level classes that foster dialogue on diversity and difference through student research and co-curricular learning. Part of the Doyle Engaging Difference Program, Doyle Seminars focus on a range of topics addressing critical questions of national, social, cultural, religious, moral, and other forms of difference. Learn more about current and previous Doyle Seminars on the Doyle website.

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer is a research professor in the School of Foreign Service, co-convener of the Indigenous Studies working group, and a faculty fellow in the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.

Jocelyne Cesari

Jocelyne Cesari holds the Chair of Religion and Politics and is director of research at the University of Birmingham's Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion; she is a Berkley Center senior fellow and an associate professor of the practice in the Department of Government.

Derek Goldman

Derek Goldman is artistic director of the Davis Performing Arts Center and professor of theater and performance studies in the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University.

Alison Hilton

Terrence L. Johnson

Terrence L. Johnson is an associate professor of religion and politics in the Department of Government and an affiliate member of the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University. Johnson is also a senior fellow at the Berkley Center.

Maria Moreno

Robert Patterson

Robert Patterson is a professor of African American studies and served as the inaugural chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University (2016–2019).

Cynthia Schneider

Cynthia P. Schneider is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service and with Derek Goldman is co-founding director of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown.

William Werpehowski

William Werpehowski holds the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Catholic Theology at Georgetown University and is a Berkley Center senior research fellow.