Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies

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Francis Ambrosio
Photo of Francis Ambrosio Francis J. Ambrosio is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University. He was born in New York City in 1949 and graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan. He received a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy, summa cum laude in cursu honoris, from Fordham, where he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After studies in Italian language and literature in Florence, Italy, he completed his doctoral degree at Fordham University in 1981, with a specialization in contemporary European Philosophy. In 1976, he was appointed Assistant to the President at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, and in 1979 became Director of Planning. In 1981, Dr. Ambrosio joined the faculty of the Department of Philosophy of Georgetown University.
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The Renaissance
Rebecca Boylan
Photo of Rebecca Boylan Rebecca Boylan has been teaching in Georgetown University's English Department since Fall 2006. She taught in George Washington University's English and Honors Departments from 2002-07 and resumed as Honors Core Faculty in Fall 2008 through the present. She's lectured at the Smithsonian on Jane Austen and Graham Greene.
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The Nineteenth Century
Arnold J. Bradford
Photo of Arnold J. Bradford Arnold Bradford's interest in interdisciplinary studies and human values attracted him to the Liberal Studies Program, where he has been teaching since its inception in the mid-1970's. A career educator, he holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry from the University of Virginia and has served on the English faculty at Georgetown and at Northern Virginia Community College, as well as in academic administration at NVCC. He finds the rich diversity of student background and the academic focus of GU's Liberal Studies an ideal learning situation.
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The Early Modern World
The Renaissance
John H. Brown
Photo of John H. Brown John Brown is currently Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies and Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Associate at Georgetown University. For many years a consultant for the Library of Congress's "Open World" exchange program with the Russian Federation, Brown is a member of the Public Diplomacy Council and on Business for Diplomatic Action's Senior Advisory Council. For many years he was a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy.
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International Affairs and Public Diplomacy
Henriette de Bruyn Kops
Photo of Henriette de Bruyn Kops Henriette de Bruyn Kops [PhD, Georgetown University, 2005] is a Research Associate in the Department of History at Georgetown University. She is also a part-time Researcher in the Department of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 
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This instructor has taught:
Enlightenment, Revolution and Democracy
Adhip Chaudhuri
Photo of Adhip Chaudhuri Dr. Adhip Chaudhuri received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 1980 and started teaching at Georgetown University the same year. His teaching and research interests lie in International Economics. He has taught the course "Multinational Corporations" in the Liberal Studies program for more than a decade now. Last Fall, he taught "Multinational Corporations" exclusively for the BALS program remotely from the Georgetown Campus at Doha, Qatar. Professor Chaudhuri strives to explain economics to non-economists.
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Gay Gibson Cima
Photo of Gay Gibson Cima Gay Gibson Cima is a Professor of English and the former Director of the Human Rights Initiative at Georgetown University. Her book Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race (Cambridge University Press 2006) illuminates African, African American, European, and European American women's strategies for entering early debates on human rights. The American Society for Theatre Research granted this volume the 2007 Barnard Hewitt Prize for Outstanding Research in Theatre History.
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The Early Modern World
Michael J. Collins
Photo of Michael J. Collins Michael J. Collins is Professor of English and Dean Emeritus at Georgetown University where he teaches undergraduate students in Georgetown College and graduate and undergraduate students in the Liberal Studies Program. At Georgetown he held the position of Dean of the School for Summer and Continuing Education (now the School of Continuing Studies) for 22 years and served as Director of the Villa Le Balze, the University's Study Center in Fiesole, Italy. He also teaches a course on Shakespeare each summer in England and co-directs the springtime tour at the Villa Le Balze. He has edited a collection of essays on Shakespeare's early comedies, he has published articles on Shakespeare and on modern poetry, and he regularly reviews performances of Shakespeare for Shakespeare Bulletin.
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Jerome Copulsky
Photo of Jerome Copulsky Jerome Copulsky is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of Judaic Studies at Goucher College. He was previously Assistant Professor and Director of Judaic Studies at Virginia Tech, and has taught at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and Indiana University. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
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Biblical Literature and the Ancient World
Mario del Carril
Photo of Mario del Carril University Teacher, journalist with some diplomatic experience, studied and worked Argentina and the United States concerned with issues in philosophy of mind, psychology language and communications. He has written in Argentine and US media (La Naci?n, The Washington Post, Lost Angeles Times, Hemisfile) on Malvinas-Falklands War, Human Rights and international affairs.
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War and Peace
Radical Evil
Veronica Donahue Diconti
Photo of Veronica Donahue Diconti Veronica Donahue DiConti is currently an Elections and Polling Analyst with the FOX News Channel in NYC and a member of FOX's Decision Desk Team for their 2008 "You Decide" coverage. Dr. DiConti joined the FOX team in 2002. Prior to FOX, DiConti was with Voter News Service, a New York City based national news gathering agency owned and operated by ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, NBC, and FOX News, from 1988-1996.
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Nan Ellen Dixon
Photo of Nan Ellen Dixon Nan Ellen Dixon is a former White House appointee to the Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Human and Organizational Development (leadership track) and received a master's degree in Leadership from Georgetown's Business School. In 2007, Nan Ellen worked with young leaders in Israel, the Palestinian Territory, Jordan and Ethiopia to develop young women leaders and encourage an interfaith dialogue. Her work there inspired her to launch her own leadership development business back in the United States to empower emerging leaders in moral, servant and authentic leadership. These experiences have further motivated her to continue to inspire young leaders to seek their potential, making a difference in their sphere of influence.
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Nicole C. Fernandez
Photo of Nicole C. Fernandez Nicole C. Fernandez is a math educator whose main interest is making math accessible to those in the social sciences and humanities.
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Business Statistics
Liliana Ferrer
Photo of Liliana Ferrer Ms. Ferrer has been a Mexican Career Foreign Service Officer since 1992 and is currently serving as the Congressional Affairs Officer (House of Representatives liaison) at the Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C., where she has also served as Assistant Deputy Chief of Mission from 2005 to 2007.
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This instructor has taught:
Introduction to International Business
Ariel Glucklich
Photo of Ariel Glucklich Ariel Glucklich is Professor in the Georgetown University Theology Department.  He specializes in classical Hinduism and in Hindu rituals and popular religious practices.  He has written several books about India, including The Strides of Vishnu (2008) and in other areas of comparative religion.
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Jan Goldman
Photo of Jan Goldman Dr. Jan Goldman is the author or editor of numerous articles and books to include Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional (volumes 1 & 2), Words of Intelligence: A Dictionary, and and the recently declassified Handbook Of Warning Intelligence: Understanding the Threat to National Security by Cynthia Grabo (Scarecrow Press, 2010). He is the editor of the International Journal of Intelligence Ethics and an organizer of the first international conference on ethics and intelligence in 2006. Dr. Goldman is a founding member of the non-profit International Intelligence Ethics Association.
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This instructor has taught:
Ethics of Spying: Policy and Process
Mark Gray
Photo of Mark Gray Mark M. Gray is a Research Associate Professor at Georgetown University and the Director of CARA Catholic Polls at Georgetown's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA). Dr. Gray has a Ph.D. in Political Science and a M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on culture and politics, political participation, democratization, and religion and politics. Methodologically, Mark specializes in survey research, trend analysis, and cross-sectional time-series studies.
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Paula S. Harrell
Photo of Paula S. Harrell Paula Harrell (Ph.D. Columbia University) is a China-Japan scholar specializing in twentieth century and contemporary history. She has worked for economic development agencies, most notably the World Bank during the pioneering stage of Bank-financed efforts to jump start China's economy through projects in agriculture and education. She made twenty trips to China as a member of Bank advisory teams, including the first mission to define lending for poverty alleviation documented in Strategies for Reducing Poverty in the 1990s (World Bank, 1993).
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Gregory Havrilak
Photo of Gregory Havrilak Professor Greg Havrilak has worked in numerous posts as both lecturer and religious advisor. For nine years he taught ancient, medieval and modern philosophy at the City University of New York and at Nassau College on Long Island. In 1998, he settled in Europe to become the Senior Religious Advisor to NATO AIRNORTH, and to the military attach? at the American Embassy in Paris. When the Kosovo War broke out, he was dispatched to the Balkans to work with Catholic, Islamic and Orthodox leaders and Non-Governmental Agencies in Albania and Kosovo on humanitarian, religious and human rights issues.
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J. Douglas Holladay
Photo of J. Douglas Holladay J. Douglas Holladay is a co-founder of Park Avenue Equity Partners, L.P. with offices in New York and Washington. Park Avenue Equity Partners is a private equity fund which makes equity investments in operating companies with revenues between $50-350 million. Prior to co-founding Park Avenue, Mr. Holladay was Chairman of the Thornton Group, LLC, which he founded in 1995 to make opportunistic direct equity investments in a range of smaller companies.
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Keith Hrebenak
Photo of Keith Hrebenak Keith Hrebenak has been a Professorial Lecturer at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service since 1994. He is retired from the U.S. Air Force where he was a bomber crewmember and acquisition engineer. He also works at the National Reconnaissance Office.  He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff programs of all four Military Services and the War College programs of the three Military Departments of the DoD. He has graduate degrees in Aeronautical Sciences and in Strategic Studies and National Security Affairs. He began his career at Georgetown as a research associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.
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This instructor has taught:
Strategy and Policy: Nations in Crisis
Joseph E. Jensen
Photo of Joseph E. Jensen Dr. Jensen earned his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies at The Catholic University of America in 2004. He has an M.A. in Theology from St. Mary's University and Seminary in Baltimore, MD (1990), and another in Library Science from the University of Denver (1971). His B.A. is in Philosophy from Regis College in Denver (1968, now Regis University). Dr. Jensen is currently teaches Sacred Scripture at Georgetown University and at Trinity University. He works for the Catholic Biblical Association located on the campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he assists in the editing of the periodical Old Testament Abstracts.
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Hubert Kelley
Photo of Hubert Kelley Hubert Kelley has advised on legal and business matters for more than twenty years, practicing in both corporate and law firm settings. His degrees include a B.A. in economics from Princeton University and J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School. His research on legal and business issues has appeared in Law and Policy (Blackwell Oxford Publishing, England), CBS News, and other media and publications.
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Business Law
Michael Kessler
Photo of Michael Kessler Michael Kessler is Assistant Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government. His current work is on legal and political notions of fundamental rights, particularly about individual moral liberties and religious freedom. Kessler received his Ph.D. in Religion and Moral and Political Theory from the University of Chicago, where he was a William Rainey Harper Fellow and held a Henry Luce Dissertation Fellowship.
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Vincent Kiernan
Photo of Vincent Kiernan An associate dean in Georgetown's School of Continuing Studies, Vincent Kiernan directs the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program, in which working adults take courses at night and on weekends toward an interdisciplinary college degree.
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Julia Lamm
Photo of Julia Lamm Julia Lamm specializes in the thought of Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher (1768-1834), the history of Christian thought, and Christian mysticism. EducationPh.D. (1991) University of Chicago, TheologyA.M. (1984) University of Chicago, Religious StudiesB.A. (1983) College of St. Catherine, History and Philosophy
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This instructor has taught:
Faith and Reason in the Middle Ages
Richard Lederman
Photo of Richard Lederman Richard Lederman holds a Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature from the Annenberg Research Institute, now the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Religion with minors in History and Classical Studies from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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Thomas Lenihan
Photo of Thomas Lenihan Thomas Lenihan is a graduate of SCS's MALS program where he pursued a concentration in Medieval and Early Modern European Studies. He earned his BA in history from Marymount University and teaches high school Advanced Placement European History and Ancient World History at Yorktown High School, where he also serves as Chair of the Social Studies Department. Mr. Lenihan is also an adjunct professor in the Department of History and Politics at Marymount.
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This instructor has taught:
The Tudors: History, Film and Legacy
Paul Lewis
Photo of Paul Lewis Paul M. Lewis is the Minority General Counsel of the House Armed Services Committee. Prior to this position he was the General Counsel for the Committee from 2010-11. From 2007-10 he served in the Office of Legislative Counsel, Office of General Counsel, of the Department of Defense. From 2008-10 he was the Director of that office. Previously, Mr. Lewis was the counsel to the Chairman of the House Ethics Committee and a senior counsel for the House Armed Services Committee. While with the Ethics Committee he served as the lead counsel when the House of Representatives expelled Representative James Traficant in 2002. While serving as counsel to the Chairman in the fall of 2004, the Committee admonished the Majority Leader of the House, Representative Tom DeLay, three times.
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Denise Li
Photo of Denise Li Denise Li is the former associate dean of Georgetown University's Master of Professional Studies in Journalism program, and a long-time instructor of Chinese language and culture. Prior to joining Georgetown, she spent 22 years on CBS News’ award-winning broadcast Face the Nation, first serving as the program’s associate producer, then producer, and finally, senior producer.
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Chinese I
Edward Marolda
Photo of Edward Marolda Edward J. Marolda, who completed a 40-year career in the U.S. federal government in September 2008, served at one time or another as the Director of U.S. Naval History (Acting), Senior Historian, and Chief, Histories and Archives Division, Naval Historical Center, located at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Pennsylvania Military College in 1967 with a BA in History. He completed an MA at Georgetown in 1971 and a Ph.D at George Washington in 1990. His Ph.D dissertation is entitled "The U.S. Navy and the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1952." Dr. Marolda served as a U.S. Army officer in South Vietnam during 1969 and 1970.
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Kaara Martinez
Photo of Kaara Martinez Kaara Martinez is a human rights attorney with a background in US refugee law. She also has experience with complex commercial litigation matters, including defamation, construction defect, and breach of contract disputes.  Earlier in her career, she worked with the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation at the Consulate General of Barbados at Miami, attracting and sustaining international investment for Barbados, and promoting the exportation of Barbadian products and services to North America.  
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International Human Rights Law
Michael McMahon
Photo of Michael McMahon Mr. Michael McMahon is an adjunct lecturer in Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies, in the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program. He currently teaches an upper-level undergraduate course entitled "International Relations for the 21st Century", which examines traditional theoretical approaches to the study of international politics, and explores their utility for understanding a rapidly changing global environment.
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International Relations for the 21st Century
Charles A. McNelis
Photo of Charles A. McNelis Charles McNelis teaches courses on Latin as well as on ancient Greek and Roman literature and myth. In these courses, he is particularly interested to show students the rich and varied thought of the ancients and how ideas about religion and politics, for example, contributed (or did not) to the formation of western civilization. He has written a book on a Roman epic poem written by Statius about the famed Greek city of Thebes (Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War (Cambridge, 2007)) and is writing another for the Cambridge University Press on Statius' poem about the great Greek hero Achilles.His B.A. is from Columbia University, his M.A. is from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. is from the University of California, Los Angeles. More information is available on the Classics Department's Web site.
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This instructor has taught:
Greeks and Romans
Introductory Latin
Ann R. Meyer
Photo of Ann R. Meyer Ann Meyer earned her undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary, and her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Chicago, with concentrations in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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Faith and Reason in the Middle Ages
Matthew Milazzo
Photo of Matthew Milazzo Matthew Milazzo is a staff member of the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. Mr. Milazzo is currently serving as the Senior Policy Advisor for Nuclear Affairs in the Office of Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) providing scientific and engineering expertise in the fields of energy, climate change, and national security. He previously served in the same office as the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/American Nuclear Society (ANS) 2009 Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Fellow. Prior to his role as Seaborg Fellow, he was a Department of Energy Office of Science Congressional Fellow detailed to the Office of U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) providing similar expertise.
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Manar Morales
Photo of Manar Morales B.S., Cornell University, School of Industrial Labor Relations; J.D., Catholic University, Columbus School of Law; Of Counsel with the law firm of Barr & Camens, specializing in labor and employment law. Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and before the U.S. District Courts for the District of Maryland and the Eastern District of Michigan.
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Lester A. Myers
Photo of Lester A. Myers Les Myers provides advisory services in organizational integrity and responsibility to directors and officers of for-profit, social profit, and other organizations. He has taught business and leadership ethics, law, and Catholic social thought at Georgetown University for many years, including the Departments of Philosophy and Theology, the Georgetown University Law Center, the McDonough School of Business, and the School of Continuing Studies. He previously taught at the Jesuit University of San Francisco, where he held the first appointment in ethics at the School of Business and Management.
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This instructor has taught:
Introduction to Ethics
Business Ethics
Charles Neimeyer
Photo of Charles Neimeyer Charles Neimeyer (PhD in American history from Georgetown) has extensive military, business, teaching, and academic leadership experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels. An award-winning published author with broad managerial experience in a variety of military, academic, and other related fields and a proven performer in the leadership and administration of graduate and undergraduate history and national security policy with special skills in Joint Professional Military Education, Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Policy, National Security Affairs and Homeland Security Policy, Academic Leadership and Instruction, and American History.
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JT Paasch
Photo of JT Paasch JT Paasch (PhD, Oxford University) teaches philosophy at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University's B.A. in Liberal Studies program. His specialty is medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophical theology.
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Joseph M. Palacios
Photo of Joseph M. Palacios Professor Joseph Palacios (Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley) teaches Sociology in the Liberal Studies Program at Georgetown University. His courses include: Introduction to the Social Sciences, Making a Difference in Society, Introduction to Urban and Community Development, Introduction to Sociology, Social Theory, Social Justice Analysis, Religion and Society, Latino Sociology, Culture and Power in Latin America, and Sociology of Culture. He is also part of the graduate faculty of the School of Foreign Service's Latin American Studies Program specializing in political culture and religion in Latin America. Palacios brings to his academic career wide experience in corporate diversity management, faith-based community organizing, and religious pastoral work among minorities and immigrants in California.
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R. Nicholas Palarino
Photo of R. Nicholas Palarino Dr. R. Nicholas Palarino is a foreign policy and military advisor for Congressman Brian Baird. Previously he was the Country Director for the International Republican Institute supporting democracy in Pakistan. He also spent several years as a professional staff member and subcommittee staff director with the US House of Representatives overseeing national security programs. Dr. Palarino spent time in the US Army as an artilleryman, aviator and arms control negotiator. He retired from the military as a lieutenant colonel.
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Victoria Pedrick
Photo of Victoria Pedrick Professor Pedrick, who earned her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati, has published essays on Homer, Greek Tragedy, and Latin Lyric as well as two volumes on tragedy, one a collection of essays, which she co-edited, and the other a study of Euripides and Freud. She primarily teaches courses in Greek and Latin language and literature, with a particular interest in Archaic and Classical Greek literature and culture. She also teaches an introduction to Classical myth. In all her courses, she encourages students to focus on the audience and cultural contexts for ancient texts, including when appropriate modern engagement. Professor Pedrick recently returned to the department after living in Doha, Qatar for three years, where she served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. While there, she also taught a Pro-Seminar for first-year students, Trial By Jury: Staging Justice in Western Drama, in which students studied the Oresteia, Aristophanes' Wasps, and Euripides' Hecuba as well as modern films and plays that stage trials. Professor Pedrick is currently writing a book on Greek myths about human violations against nature, including the cardinal cultural act of sailing, the deliberate desecration of sacred trees, and the wholly unnatural act of flying.
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Mortal Heroes: Ancient Epic Narratives
Albert C. Pierce
Dr. Pierce is the first Director of the Institute for National Security Ethics and Leadership, established in the fall of 2007 at the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC. 
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Ethics and Public Service
Jonathan Ray
Photo of Jonathan Ray Jonathan Ray is the Samuel Eig Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department. Prof. Ray specializes in medieval and early modern Jewish history, focusing on the Sephardic civilization. His research explores the "convivencia" or coexistence between Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies in Iberia and throughout the broader Mediterranean world. His courses include: Under Crescent and Cross: Jewish Middle Ages; Jews of Spain in the Middle Ages; and Jews and Judaism in the world of Islam.
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Faith and Reason in the Middle Ages
George Reese
Photo of George Reese George is the Training Coordinator for Georgetown University Training and Organizational Development. He recently completed the Executive Master's in Leadership degree program through the McDonough School of Business and holds the Training Specialist Certificate through the Center for Professional Development. George is also certified as a Qualified Practitioner in the Apter Motivational Style Profile. Prior to coming to Georgetown, George spent 18 years as a classroom teacher. He earned his BS in Elementary Education from the University of Maryland.
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John A. Reuscher
Photo of John A. Reuscher John Reuscher received his doctorate from Fordham University. His primary research interest is the development of Kant's thought with a special concentrations on his theory of knowledge and his aesthetics. A secondary background interest is the place of Kant in the history of the problem of knowledge.
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Greeks and Romans
Donald L. Ross
Photo of Donald L. Ross Dr. Ross received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Wake Forest University in 1970, his master's from the University of Iowa in 1972, and his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1979.
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Paul A. Russo
Photo of Paul A. Russo Ambassador Paul A. Russo's political and government experience spans over thirty years, having served in numerous senior positions, both in government and national politics. He was the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from 1986 through 1988, a position which required confirmation by the United States Senate. Mr. Russo also served in the Reagan White House as Special Assistant to the President for Political Affairs, was Deputy Under Secretary of Labor and a member Ronald Reagan's senior staff during his three presidential campaigns.
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Sara Schotland
Photo of Sara Schotland Sara Schotland teaches Law and Literature at Georgetown University Law School and in Georgetown University's B.A. Liberal Studies Program. She teaches Disability Studies in the University of Maryland honors college curriculum as well as in the Georgetown B.A.L.S. program. Mrs. Schotland is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at the United States Naval Academy.
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Alexander Sens
Photo of Alexander Sens Professor Sens primarily teaches courses in Greek and Latin language and literature. He is particularly interested in the way that poets locate themselves in an ongoing literary tradition by alluding to and engaging with the works of their predecessors. In courses in translation, he is interested in introducing students to the ways in which ancient authors both created and played with the boundaries of genre. His goal is for students at all levels is to be able to think independently about the ways in which ancient authors defined their own projects against the background of the various literary traditions they were working with.
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Greeks and Romans
Christopher Shinn
Photo of Christopher Shinn Christopher A. Shinn earned his Ph.D. in Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000. He also received an M.T.S. in Religious Studies at Harvard University in 1991 and an M.A. in English Language and Literature at San Jose State University in 1992. He has been on the faculty at Georgetown University since 2008 and has taught at Howard University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Florida State University, and Stanford University.
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Writing in an Interdisciplinary Environment
Douglas Smurr
Photo of Douglas Smurr Mr. Smurr is an attorney with more than twenty years experience in the area of international business. He is licensed in California and the District of Columbia where he is a member of the International Law Section of both bars. Currently, Mr. Smurr serves as President and Chief Operations Officer of World's Law, Inc.
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Introduction to International Business
Steven Snell
Photo of Steven Snell After completing studies in Classics at Johns Hopkins University, Steven L. Snell received the degree of Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law and the degrees of Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science from New York University School of Law. 
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The Early Modern World
Kathryn Temple
Photo of Kathryn Temple Kathryn Temple, J.D., Ph.D. is the Curriculum Adviser for the English component of the College Preparatory Program and oversees the curriculum design and training of program staff.  Associate professor and chair of the Georgetown University English Department, she specializes in eighteenth-century British law, literature, and culture.  At Georgetown, she serves as first vice-chair of the Executive Faculty and as Writing Services Coordinator for the School of Continuing Studies.  Currently she is an elected representative on the MLA Division for Restoration and Eighteeth-Century Studies, the chair of the Macaulay Prize Committee for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and a consultant to the College Board on the issue of Advanced Placement standards for English literature.  Her current book project, Juridipoetics, takes up the relationship between poetics, affect, and political institutions, while her first book, Scandal Nation, investigated the public impact of law on texts and authorship.  She teaches eighteenth-centry literature and culture, women's literature, advanced prose writing, and law and cultural studies.  Originally from Urbana, Illinois, she received a J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1981 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1994.  She has been at Georgetown since 1994.
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Enlightenment, Revolution and Democracy
Bartholomew Timm
Photo of Bartholomew Timm Bartholomew Timm teaches in the professional business programs at Georgetown University and is a visiting professor in the School of Business at The George Washington University.He specializes in change management, team and group dynamics, effective leadership, strategic planning, for profit and non-profit business development, and hiring, turnover and staffing solutions, and has published and spoken on these and related topics.
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Theories of Leadership
Andrew R Volmert
Andrew Volmert is a political theorist whose work centers on the role of political tradition in public discourse. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2008, and most recently served as Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Political Theory Project at Brown University.
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Enlightenment, Revolution and Democracy
Andrew Wackerfuss
Photo of Andrew Wackerfuss Dr. Andrew Wackerfuss is an adjunct professor with the BALS program, and, starting in August 2010, a historian in the Air Force Historical Studies Office at Bolling AFB. He earned his PhD in history at Georgetown in 2009, with a dissertation entitled "The Stormtrooper Family: How Sexuality, Spirituality, and Community Shaped the Hamburg SA." His prior academic work includes a Masters from Georgetown's BMW Center for German and European Studies, several years employment at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a Bachelor's in History from Northwestern University. He has taught at Georgetown since 2005, having offered courses such as World Civilization, Theorizing Culture & Politics, and Political Violence in 20th century Europe.
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The Nineteenth Century
Deborah R Warin
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The Renaissance
William J. Wheeler
Photo of William J. Wheeler Will Wheeler is Head of Research & Instruction at Georgetown University's Lauinger Library. Before that, Dr. Wheeler was Head of the Social Sciences Resource Goupr at Stanford University, Assistant Head of Collections at NC State, and Coordinator of Collections for the Social Sciences at Yale.
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Country Music USA
Gladys B. White
Gladys B. White is an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University and also a faculty member at the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. She teaches global bioethics, workplace ethics and cyberethics. She is a graduate of Duke University (BSN), Catholic University of America (MSN) and Georgetown University (PhD in philosophy). She has had a number of work experiences including, policy analyst, U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, Director of the Center for Ethics and Human Rights, American Nurses Association, Executive Director, National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction and Deputy Director, the Center for Ethics in Health Care, Veterans Health Administration. She has published widely on bioethical issues and her special interests include reprogenetics, cyberethics, sports ethics and ethical issues in the professions.
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Workplace Ethics
Bioethics
Nolana Yip
Photo of Nolana Yip In addition to teaching at Georgetown University in the Department of English and the Liberal Studies Program since 2006, Nolana Yip is also Faculty Mentor to incoming students in the Liberal Studies Program. She also has been teaching at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 2003 and taught at The George Washington University for over six years.
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Writing in an Interdisciplinary Environment
Elizabeth K Zelensky
Photo of Elizabeth K Zelensky Elizabeth Zelensky received her Ph D in History from Georgetown University in 1993. For the past five years she has taught European and Russian history at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar. Prior to that she taught the history component of the Liberal Arts Seminar at the College of Arts and Sciences from 1998-2005, as well as a range of other courses for the Georgetown University History Department. She has also taught at Goucher College, American University and University of Maryland. She has worked as a historical consultant for the US Department of State and for the Office of Special Investigations in the US Department of Justice. Her scholarly interests focus on the discourse of Westernization in pre-revolutionary Russia, gender and religion.
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Women. Power. Europe.
Stefan N. Zimmers
Photo of Stefan N. Zimmers Stefan Zimmers is an assistant visiting professor of History at Georgetown University and received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D from Georgetown. He is currently a member of the undergraduate history curriculum committee, the Foley Committee as well as the Liberal Studies core faculty. He is a frequent lecturer at the Smithsonian on topics ranging from the general historic themes of modern Europe to the Black Death and the Crusades.
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