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Before Georgetown, he taught Ottoman, Hungarian, and Balkan history at the Universities of Budapest (ELTE) and Pécs (JPTE), Hungary. His research has focused on the Ottoman Empire and its Habsburg, Russian and Safavid imperial rivals, and on Ottoman and European warfare, diplomacy, and intelligence gathering. In 2003, he was visiting professor at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 2008 and 2009 he taught at Georgetown's McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya, Turkey, and in 2018 at Georgetown’s Doha, Qatar, campus. He is the author of ten monographs and collected studies on Ottoman history, including Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021). He has written more than ninety scholarly articles and book chapters in English, Turkish, and Hungarian on Ottoman, European, and Hungarian history. He is also the co-author of the first English-language Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire (2009) and the co-editor of the upcoming Cambridge History of War.

In 1983 I came to the United States to pursue my doctoral work, which I finished in 1988. I taught for one year at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Since 1989 I have taught at Georgetown, where I am now Professor of History. My research has focused on the social and economic history of early modern Italy, especially the South. I teach all periods of European history at the survey level, and the Renaissance and early modern periods (ca. 1400-1800) at the upper level. I have developed and taught courses on the Renaissance, Italian history, Iberian history, European historiography, music and theater in early modern Europe, the development of individuality in European culture, the city of Rome, the city of Florence, art and power in pre-modern Europe, crime and justice in early modern Europe, and European society and culture in the eighteenth century.

His courses position passion and interest as core motivators in academic pursuits, encouraging students to view their enthusiasm and experience as expertise they can draw on in order to introduce their own pet projects into unexpected academic conversations. Schuler’s scholarly interests in rhetorical theory, sound studies, and embodiment currently overlap with his personal interests in music and culture. He is curious about how audiences define and assign meaning in composition, as well as how they invent, perceive, and participate in the relationship between meaning and accessibility, specifically as this relationship occurs across the extreme music spectrum. His most recent recording collaboration released its debut album in April 2024, blending niche punk, metal, and electronic subgenres with body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB)-generated samples. His current collaboration focuses on eating disorders and drug use, testing the pop contagion of ‘90’s industrial rock/metal against the emotional and sociocultural capacities of modern grindcore and harsh noise. He earned his Ph.D. in composition and rhetoric at the University of South Carolina in 2022. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, dog, and four (!) cats.

His work focuses on the long nineteenth century with a transnational perspective. Santiago’s research explores how political and economic notions of “resource”, “progress” and “potential productivity” interacted to shape the trajectory of an extensive ecological region of South America: the grasslands of Argentina, Uruguay, and Southern Brazil. His doctoral dissertation, The Greater Pampas. Ecology and Nation in the Río de la Plata Grasslands (1770-1920), not only analyzes the material and ideological factors that transformed this biome but also how the biome’s characteristics forged the capacities and limits of the States that emerged on it. Santiago’s approach bridges environmental, political, and economic history to offer a renovated framework of study that challenges nation-centered histories and classic periodization.

Before coming to Georgetown, Santiago received a bachelor's and a master's degree from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. Santiago also took graduate courses at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, The University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and El Colegio de México. He also received scholarships and grants from prestigious institutions, including the Fulbright Commission, the Georgetown Americas Institute, and the Latin American Studies Association.

His teaching experience in Argentina and the United States includes courses in Latin American, European, U.S., Atlantic, and Global History. Santiago also takes pleasure in participating in interdisciplinary debates across different regions. He is a member of diverse international academic associations and has presented his work at conferences in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Italy, Spain, and the United States.

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.

In 2024, they received their PhD in English from George Washington University with area specializations in Crip/Queer Studies and American Literature and Culture. While at GW they co-organized the 2018 Composing Disability Studies Conference and co-founded and led the Department of English Crip/Queer Reading Group.

Forrest’s current book manuscript, tentatively titled An Attunement to Quiet: Crip Feelings, Queer Intimacy, and the Trans Gaze, proposes and analyzes an archive of feeling containing cultural artifacts which, when considered not through the couple or dialectic form but through the nuptial, evidences the way minoritized people build and sustain social life worlds through affective social bonds rather than identitarian ones. Through its readings of nuptials the project identifies three minor modes of sociality around which these affective bonds coalesce—crip feelings, queer intimacy, and the trans gaze—and the ways each formation possesses the potential to sustain minoritized communities facing interlocking ideologies of anti-Black racism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy as seen in dominant modes of sociality—white affect, the nuclear family, and the male gaze. In turn, each minor mode of sociality provides the ground to rethink relationality and power centering shared affective positions rather than identity categories. From this construction and analysis of the social world the project ultimately asserts quiet as an undergirding structure of feeling that turns away from ideologies sustained by property ownership, the category of the human, and settler sexualities and towards the affective worldbuilding potential of eroticism, incommensurability, hapticality.

Their article “Crip Feelings/Feeling Crip” considers the slipperiness of identity and affect as organizing logics in representations of psychiatric disability in visual culture and queer studies scholarship was published in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies’ Special Issue on Disability and Emotions Ed. David Bolt (2020). Their manuscript “A Transcrip Theory: Intimacy, Embodiment, and the Trans Gaze in Leo Xander Foo’s Photography” is under review for the Trans[]Crip Special Issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly Eds. J. Logan Smilges & Slava Greenberg. The manuscript considers the imbricated nature of gender, disability, and pathology as a way of recontextualizing disability studies within trans studies.

Forrest has presented work at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, the Museum of Popular Culture Conference, the DC Queer Studies Symposium, the Northeast MLA Annual Convention, Reaching Out MBA Annual Conference, the Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, and the Center for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. 

Dr. Andrew Gibson is a Lecturer in the Department of Government, where he received his Ph.D. (with Distinction) in May 2024 studying political theory (major) and international relations (minor).

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 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 in the 1900s. Click here for an abstract of a book-related article. In addition, Dr. Girod is researching the relationship between political science and policy formulation.

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.

In 2017-18, Dr. Girod served as President of the Foreign Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. In 2018-2021, he directed the Master's program in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown. In 2020, Out in National Security recognized him as 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 is a transgender man.

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. Various institutions have funded his research: the Political Instability Task Force, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, Georgetown's College of Arts and Sciences and 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.

He studies migration, diaspora politics, and citizenship with a particular interest in the determinants of emigrant rights and diaspora enfranchisement policies at the intersection of political crises in developing [sending] countries. He focuses on the MENA region especially Egypt and Tunisia. His research has been published in Political Studies Review, and the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University in Cairo.

Ahmed is a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant. He won the Spring 2023 GSAS-GradGov Research Grant at Georgetown for his project titled “emigrant attitudes in restrictive-labor migrant systems." He is also a recipient of Georgetown's Outstanding Teaching Assistant award in the “Social Sciences” category. Ahmed is an Instructor of Record at Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies, and a Communications Officer at the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA). He served as an elected member of the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Migration and Citizenship section. He presented at the conferences of APSA, Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), CPSA, Middle East Studies Association (MESA), and the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA).

Before coming to Georgetown, Ahmed received a MA degree in Political Science from the University of Toronto after writing a thesis on the role of militaries in the 2011 Bahraini, Egyptian, Libyan, and Syrian uprisings. Prior, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Honors Political Science, a Bachelor of Business Administration, and a minor in History, Summa Cum Laude, from the American University in Cairo. He also undertook summer non-degree programs at Oxford University’s St. Antony's College and UCLA. During his undergraduate study, Ahmed served as a presidential student ambassador, research assistant, model united nations and model arab league secretariat, and contributed to research centers and student papers. He was an intern at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the German Federal Enterprise for International Corporation-GIZ. He also served as the Research Assistant to the Executive Director of the Middle East and North Africa Health Policy Forum, a research organization hosted by the Economic Research Forum in Cairo, Egypt, and volunteered as an editor for the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario.

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.

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.

Past projects of mine have explored the role of the Women Strike for Peace movement within 1950s/1960s anti-nuclear activism; the blend of scientific and public discourse surrounding the Nuclear Winter Hypothesis throughout the mid-1980s; and the military origins of both modern upper atmospheric science and NASA in the pre-Sputnik world. I have also written about earlier eras of US expansion, particularly 19th Century U.S. territorial annexation of Caribbean and Pacific islands during the "Age of Guano." My dissertation research examines the establishment and growth of the U.S. missile and satellite tracking stations as a key infrastructure network for U.S. global power projection post-World War II. This project will shed light on the relationship between the US global basing system and Outer Space in national security regimes.