Temple University; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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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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This instructor has taught:
Dante: The Journey to Freedom
Heroes and Saints: Tracking the Values Genome

Ph.D., George Washington University; Adjunct Professor for the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and for Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
Art and Ethics: Current Controversies in the Liberal Arts
Art and Terrorism
Visual Culture and Terrorism
War, Peace and Violence in Global Visual Culture

Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University. Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh (1989); B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (1983). Specialist in modern German philosophy and American pragmatism.
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This instructor has taught:
The Consequences of Pragmatism: Law, Education, and Politics

Ph.D., University of Michigan; Assistant Professor in Theology Department, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
Buddhism through Literature and Art
The Dalai Lama: Tibetan Buddhism in the Modern World

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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This instructor has taught:
Artist As Genius
Fragmentation and Reintegration
Classic and Romantic: Styles and Values in Western Culture
Orientalism: Western Perceptions of Near Eastern Culture and Values
The Myth of the Hero

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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This instructor has taught:
Propaganda and American Foreign Policy
Islamic Theological Texts
Miracles in Islam and the West

University of Pittsburgh; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
Moral and Political Equality
Responsibility, "Luck," and Self-Respect: The Human Condition

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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This instructor has taught:
Ethical Issues in Global Trade

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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This instructor has taught:
American Literature and the American Idea
The Plays of William Shakespeare: Text and Performance

This instructor has taught:
Values Issues in International Affairs

George Washington University; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
MALS Thesis Proposal Workshop
The Economic System and Interest Group Politics
Anti-Trust, Changing Technology, and American Values

This instructor has taught:
MALS Thesis Proposal Workshop
The Economic System and Interest Group Politics
Conflict Management

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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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, Intelligence, and National Security

Yvonne Haddad, Ph.D., is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Professor Haddad's fields of expertise include twentieth-century Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; and Islam in North America and the West. Currently, Professor Haddad is conducting research on Muslims in the West and on Islamic Revolutionary Movements. She also teaches courses on Muslim-Christian Relations and Arab Intellectuals.
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This instructor has taught:
Revolutionary Thought in Islam
Islam and the Study of Muslim-Christian Relations
Islam, Gender, and Social Change

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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This instructor has taught:
Christology and New Physics
Cosmos and Christ: Can They Be Mutually Enlightening?

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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This instructor has taught:
Religion and Conflict
The 1960s: Culture and Conflict

Paul L. Heck is Associate Professor in Georgetown's Theology Department. He is author of The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization, Common Ground: Islam, Christianity, and Religious Pluralism (2009) and The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization (2002). He is editor of The Politics of Sufism: The Power of Spirituality (2006).
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This instructor has taught:
The Concept of the State in Islam
Salafism: Islam Acsendant

University of Virginia; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
The World of Thomas Jefferson
Freedom and Slavery in American History

Johns Hopkins University; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
The Early Roman Empire: Politics and Society

Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva); Project Director, Carnegie Project on Reformist and Moderate Voices in Islam and Adjunct Professor for the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran
Islam and Politics
Islam, Politics and Security in Modern Central Asia
Religion and International Affairs

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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This instructor has taught:
The New Testament and Social Justice
Christian Orgins

University of Illinois; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
MALS Thesis Proposal Workshop
Detective Fiction and Cultural Values

Thomas M. Kerch received a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University. His primary area of research and teaching is Greek and Roman political and moral philosophy. Of particular interest is the manner in which classical authors have exerted an influence on thinkers of later eras. In addition to teaching in the Liberal Studies Program, Dr. Kerch also teaches in Georgetown's Government Department. He has published and presented conference papers on various aspects of classical political thought. Currently, he is in the process of completing a book-length study on the importance of moderation in Plato's political and moral philosophy.
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This instructor has taught:
MALS Thesis Proposal Workshop
Classical Roots of American Founding
Foundations of Modernity

This instructor has taught:
The Art of Biblical Literature
The Book of Genesis: Literature, Ethics, and Theology

This instructor has taught:
James Joyce: A Culture and Literary Study

Robert L. Manuel, PhD is dean of the School of Continuing Studies (SCS) at Georgetown University. He has more than 20 years in higher education experience in specific areas such as admissions, technology development, events, financial aid, developing and implementing academic programs including graduate and online learning strategies at New York University and Georgetown University.
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This instructor has taught:
City Lab - Geneva Experience

Dr. Douglas M. McCabe is Professor of Labor Relations, Human Resource Management, and Organizational Behavior at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.  He is the author of more than 200 articles, papers, monographs, and speeches presented at professional and scholarly meetings in the field of employee relations. He is also an active domestic and international consultant.
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This instructor has taught:
Managerial and Organizational Ethics
Issues and Values in American Management Thought
The History and Development of American Labor

S. Anthony (Tony) McCann serves on the faculty of Georgetown University and the University of Maryland teaching courses in Public Policy and Budgeting. He recently retired from the position of chief financial officer for the Health Resources and Services Administration-an agency of the federal Department of Health and Human Services overseeing the formulation and execution of the agency’s $7 billion budget. 
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This instructor has taught:
Budget, Finance, and Public Policy

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:
Roman Emperors: Absolute Rule in Western Civilization

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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This instructor has taught:
Cinema and American Values

This instructor has taught:
The Problem of Evil

This instructor has taught:
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Implications for American Policies

University of Chicago; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
Theological Issues in the 20th and 21st Century Fiction
Classics in the Catholic Tradition
Understanding the Symbolic Language of Religion

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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This instructor has taught:
Social Inequality

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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This instructor has taught:
Understanding Terrorism and Terrorists

Rory F. Quirk joined the Liberal Studies faculty in 1999.  His courses range across three Liberal Studies Program curricular fields (American Studies, The Theory and Practice of American Democracy, Social and Public Policy) and cover a spectrum of Constitutional Law issues:
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This instructor has taught:
Scorpions in the Constitutional Bottle: Uncivil Speech, Civil Society
Caesar, God, and The Constitution
The Court, The Constitution, and the Shaping of the American Nation

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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This instructor has taught:
The Ethics of Aristotle and Kant

Brown University; Associate Professor and Chair of Theology, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
Sex, Lies, and Theology: Theology after Freud
Ethical Problems in Contemporary Society

This instructor has taught:
MALS Thesis Writing

Professor Ronkainen has co-authored four texts, including International Marketing and International Business. His most recent book is The Global Marketing Imperative (with M. Czinkota and J. Tarrant). He has spoken on global business for executive programs at IBM and the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland. He has served on the board of the Washington International Trade Association, where he started the association's newsletter, Trade Trends. Professor Ronkainen developed the School of Business summer study program in Hong Kong for undergraduate business students.
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Harvard University; Associate Professor of Theology, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
Alienation and Self-Identity
Pilgrimage, Travel, and Tourism

Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
MALS Thesis Proposal Workshop

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Religion and peace

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Adam and Eve in Theology and Image

Northwestern University; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
Your Family in History
The Pursuit of Peace
The Problem of War

Cornell University; Professorial Lecturer in History, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
U.S.-Vietnam Relations: Five Themes
ASEAN: Southeast Asian Tigers?

Johns Hopkins University; Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
From Hillel to Mendelssohn: The Changing of Rabbinic Thought

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The Politics of Gender in World Religions

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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This instructor has taught:
Religion and Politics in the U.S.
The Politics of Gender in World Religions

Union Theological Seminary; Professor of Theology, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
MALS Thesis Writing
MALS Continuous Thesis Registration
MALS Thesis Research

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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Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
Becoming American: Immigration in Historical Perspective
Globalization and the American Worker
American Workers and the Pursuit of Happiness

John O. Voll is professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He taught Middle Eastern, Islamic, and world history at the University of New Hampshire for thirty years before moving to Georgetown in 1995. He graduated from Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. He has lived in Cairo, Beirut, and Sudan and has traveled widely in the Muslim world. The second edition of his book Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World appeared in 1994. He is co-author, with John L. Esposito, of Islam and Democracy and Makers of Contemporary Islam and is editor, author, or co-author of six additional books. He is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association and also of the New England Historical Association. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs, and the Sudan Studies Association. He was the chair of the program committee for the 1999 annual meeting of the American Historical Association. In 1991 he received a Presidential Medal in recognition for scholarship on Islam from President Husni Mubarak of Egypt. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on modern Islamic and Sudanese history.
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This instructor has taught:
History of Islam in Africa
Contemporary Islamic Activist Intellectuals
Muslim-Christian Relationships in World History
Movements of Islamic Renewal

This instructor has taught:
Path to the Present: The U.S. in the 20th Century
U.S. and Pacific Asia: Past, Present, and Future
Path to the Future: The U.S. in the 21st Century

Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University
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This instructor has taught:
China: From Communism to Commercialism, 1949-Present
America and China in Historical Perspective

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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This instructor has taught:
Global Bioethics
Communication and Persuasion: Ethical Issues in the Professions
Cyberethics

Fordham University, Joint Program with Union Theological Seminary; Professor of Ethics and International Affairs, The School of Foreign Service and the Department of Theology, Georgetown University.
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This instructor has taught:
Crises of Conscience in American Foreign Policy

Charles Yonkers, B.A. Yale (History), J.D. Harvard Law School, MALS Georgetown (2006), teaches as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program. He practiced law in Washington, D.C. before becoming Managing Partner and Senior Counsel for the rest of his legal career.  From 1972-1976, he served as Peace Corps Country Director in Benin, West Africa. He grew up in the Mid-West and was an International Schoolboy Fellow at Gresham’s School, England. His MALS concentration was American Studies, and his thesis was on “The Creation of a Sense of Place: History, Culture, and Henderson, KY.” He has taught at Georgetown since 2007.
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This instructor has taught:
The Federalist: Creating a New Nation
A Sense of Place: Values and Identity

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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This instructor has taught:
Russia: Politics and Culture through Literature and Film

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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This instructor has taught:
Roman Emperors: Absolute Rule in Western Civilization