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Before I arrived at Georgetown, I worked as a journalist in the Middle East. I lived in Rabat, Jerusalem, Beirut, and Cairo. My work on the West Bank wall was part of the multimedia project that won the 2018 Rey de España Prize, awarded by the Spanish king to the best journalistic pieces in Spanish and Portuguese. I am also a fiction writer, and I recently published a novel on a Syrian migrant living in São Paulo during the early 1930s, "Vou Sumir Quando a Vela se Acabar." Moreover, I wrote the scripts for two graphic novels, "Remy" and "Rasga Mortalhas."

She obtained her MA in English Literature from George Washington University in 2015, with a focus in medieval literature and multi-modal scholarship. Her current interests include ecology, medieval literature, science fiction, popular culture, and combining illustration and creative fields with academic engagement.

I'm currently a sixth-year PhD student in Georgetown's Department of History. My dissertation project considers how the Internal Armed Conflict (1980~2000) and the resulting Commission for Truth and Reconciliation impacted a rural community called Quinua in the Huamanga region of Ayacucho, Peru. From May- December 2022, I used a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award to conduct oral history interviews and fieldwork to center this dissertation in the community of Quinua. Though my research lies in Peru, I have extensive experience traveling and working for a small organization called Adopta Una Familia in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and am passionate about researching and developing transitional justice across Latin America!

I am a New Englander at heart residing in Washington, DC with my two cats and a rescue greyhound named Spaghetti.

Dr. Easwar's expertise lies in consumer psychology. His interests and research focus on the influence of affect, emotion and prospection on consumer information processing and decision-making. Dr. Easwar has also written cases for Harvard Business Publishing examining various global business challenges. At Georgetown, Prof. Easwar teaches principles of marketing and consumer behavior across various degree programs as well as conducting the Global Business Experience in Vietnam, India, and Chile. He is also the Director of the Business Scholars Program at MSB.

Dr. Andrew Gibson is a Lecturer in the Department of Government, where he received his Ph.D. (with Distinction) in May 2024.

He has taught numerous courses in political theory and international relations, including "Elements of Political Theory" (Spring 2025, Summer 2024), "Political and Social Thought" (Summer 2023), "American Political Thought" (Fall 2024), "Classic Texts in Strategy" (Spring 2025), and "From Machiavelli to IR Realism" (Fall 2024, Fall 2023).

Dr. Gibson's dissertation ("The Atlantic Machiavellians: Republican Realism, Renaissance Historiography, and Twentieth Century Political Thought, 1915-1975") traced twentieth-century debates over Machiavelli's political and historical legacy. His committee included Shannon C. Stimson (chair), Joshua L. Cherniss, and Stefan Eich.

He received his B.A. in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy (Honors, Phi Beta Kappa) from Michigan State University's James Madison College as well as M.A.s from the University of Chicago (Social Sciences) and Georgetown University (Government). As a Ph.D. Candidate, he was a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow with the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) and a Doctoral Research Fellow with the German Historical Institute (GHI).

Desh Girod (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2008) is an associate professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University and an affiliate with the Department's Conflict Resolution Program and Georgetown's Center for Social Justice. 

Dr. Girod's latest research examines how racial projects function globally and in the United States. He is currently writing a book, Jim Crow Foreign Policy, on how domestic race politics shaped the rise of the United States as a Great Power. Dr. Girod is also researching the relationship between political science and U.S. foreign policy formulation. Both projects employ critical theory, and Dr. Girod expanded his methodological training to undertake this work. He now uses interpretive methods and engages in archival and ethnographic research.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Dr. Girod developed an early interest in how powerful countries influence less powerful ones. He published his research on foreign aid in periodicals including the American Journal of Political Science and International Organization, as well as his first book, Explaining Post-Conflict Reconstruction, with Oxford University Press. (His first name appears as Desha on these and other publications prior to 2021; as a transman, he has since changed it to Desh).

In 2017-18, Dr. Girod served as President of the Foreign Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. From 2018 to 2021, he directed the Master's program in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown. In 2020, Out in National Security recognized him as a National Security Leader, and as an LGBTQIA+ Foreign Policy Expert, and the Diversity in National Security Network recognized him as a Latinx Foreign Policy Expert.

Dr. Girod earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 2008, an M.Phil in International Peace Studies from Trinity College, Dublin, in 2002, and a B.A. in Political Science from Penn State in 2000. His research has received support from Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the Political Instability Task Force, Georgetown's College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Provost, and Stanford's Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. The Bunton-Waller Fellowship for underrepresented groups funded his Bachelor of Arts degree, the Mitchell Scholarship funded his M.Phil., and the Harry S. Truman Foundation, Stanford's Political Science Department, and the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law funded his Ph.D.

Eric Langenbacher is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Senior Honors Program in the Department of Government, Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on comparative politics, political culture, and political films.

He studied in Canada before starting graduate work in the Government Department and Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown in 1996. He was awarded a Fulbright grant in 1999-2000 and held the Ernst Reuter Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin in 1999-2000, the Hopper Memorial Fellowship at Georgetown in 2000-2001, and was selected School of Foreign Service faculty member of the year by the 2009 graduating class. He has been teaching in the Government Department since Fall 2002, and has taught at George Washington University, Washington College, and at UNSAM in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His dissertation,“Memory Regimes and Political Culture in Contemporary Germany,” was defended with distinction in September 2002. He is the co-author of "The German Polity, 12th edition" (2021). He has also published edited volumes, Launching the Grand Coalition: The 2005 Bundestag Election and the Future of German Politics (2006), Power and the Past: Collective Memory and International Relations (with Yossi Shain, 2010), Between Left and Right: The 2009 Bundestag Election and the Transformation of the German Party System (2010), From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic: Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification (with Jeff Anderson, 2010), Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe (with Ruth Wittlinger and Bill Niven, 2013), The Merkel Republic: An Appraisal (2015), Twilight of the Merkel Era: Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election (2019), and Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy (2024). His textbook, Comparative Politics: Mapping Institutions, Power, and Legitimacy will come out with Sage/CQ Press in 2025. His research interests center on political culture, collective memory, political institutions, public opinion and German and European politics. He has published in German Politics and Society, German Politics, The International Journal of Politics and Ethics and in numerous edited volumes. He has also planned and run dozens of short programs on various aspects of U.S. politics, society, and business for groups from abroad.

Sarah Marshall has been teaching at Georgetown University for 30 years. She has performed in over 100 professional theater productions Washington DC regional theaters including Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theater, The Folger, Studio Theater, Round House Theater, Signature Theater, Washington Stage Guild and she is a company member at Woolly Mammoth Theater. She has been nominated for 25 Helen Hayes awards and has been awarded one. Teaching credits include The Berkshire Theater Festival, Kennedy Center Program for Children and Youth, Duke Ellington High School for the Performing Arts, Studio Theater Acting Conservatory, Round House Theater, Filmore Arts Center, Theater Lab, Source Theater and Woolly Mammoth Theater.

Gaurav J. Pathania is a sociologist of higher education and teaches "Introduction to Sociology" at the department of Sociology, Georgetown University. He has taught Global Social Movements at the George Washington University, Washington DC. Gaurav has formerly served as a Visiting Scholar to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and as a Research Associate at the University of Southern California.

His current research in cultural sociology critically examines contemporary identity movements in India and among the diaspora. Along with several research papers and reviews, Gaurav has recently authored his first book, "The University as a Site of Resistance: Identity and Student Politics" (Oxford University Press, 2018). The book conceptualizes the conditions for the emergence of cultural politics and student resistance in Indian higher education.

Gaurav is also a published poet. His poetry won the national and international prizes sponsored by the Poetry Society of India. He is currently working on his memoir about his childhood in a village in a pre-globalized India.

He holds a B.A. from Tufts University in History and Religion, and a Ph.D. in Jewish History from The Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia (Cornell University Press, 2006), After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry (NYU Press, 2013), and several articles on Jewish history and culture. His most recent book, Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), illuminates interfaith relations in Spain from the Jewish perspective.

University of British Columbia (2020)

Bachelor of Science - Biology

Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy

Lauve Steenhuisen has been a Visiting Assistant Professor and Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Women's Studies at Georgetown since 1995. She is a scholar of American theologies and religious movements, specializing in feminist and sociological analyses. She was raised in Europe, Canada, and Virginia, and received her BA with honors from Roanoke College in Religion and Philosophy. She pursued graduate work in New Testament Theology at the University of Durham, England, and American Religion at Stanford University. She received her doctorate in Religion and Society from the Graduate Theological Union, jointly administered with the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include feminist theology as a social movement, separation of church and state issues, fundamentalism, new age spiritualities, and American Lutheran theological evolution. She is the author of "Congregations of One: A Study of Individual Religion", "Autonomy in Religion: A Study of Dimensions and Types" (with Susan Kwilecki),"Deconstructing Bellah's 'Sheilaism'", "Feminist Theology and Backlash Fundamentalism: Re-Imagining Reconsidered", "Sociotheology: A Methodology for the Study of Lived Religion", and numerous book reviews for academic journals and magazines. Her areas of campus leadership and service include: Chapter Advisor for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (Distinguished Member), faculty mentor to John Carroll Scholars, and member of the Women's Studies Program Steering Committee. She is the 2004-05 National Co-Coordinator for Lutheran Women in Theological and Religious Studies. Dr. Steenhuisen is the 1995 recipient of the "Teaching Excellence Award" (George Mason University), and the first woman to receive the Rotary Foundation International Fellowship (1977).