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faculty, including both current and past faculty at the Washington, D.C. school. As of 2007, Georgetown University employs approximately and faculty members across its three campuses. Many former politicians choose to teach at Georgetown, including U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Andrew Natsios, National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, U.S. Senator and Senate Democratic Leader

Tom Daschle Thomas Andrew Daschle ( ; born December 9, 1947) is an American politician and lobbyist who served as a United States senator from South Dakota from 1987 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he became U.S. Senate Minority Leader in 1995 an ...

, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, and CIA director

George Tenet George John Tenet (born January 5, 1953) is an American intelligence official and academic who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, as well as a Distinguished Professor in the Pr ...

. Politically, Georgetown's faculty members give more support to liberal candidates, and their donation patterns are consistent with those of other American university faculties. All of Georgetown University's presidents have been faculty as well.

Current faculty

Business

Jason Brennan Jason F. Brennan (born 1979) is an American philosopher and business professor. He is currently the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georg ...

* Michael Czinkota *

Pietra Rivoli Pietra Rivoli is a professor of Finance and International Business International business refers to the trade of goods, services, technology, capital and/or knowledge across national borders and at a global or transnational scale. It involves ...

Economics

George Akerlof George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. ...

* Ibrahim Oweiss

English

* Aminatta Forna * Carolyn Forché * Christopher Shinn * David Gewanter * Jennifer Natalya Fink * Lydia Brown * Maureen Corrigan

Government

José María Aznar José María Alfredo Aznar López (; born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spain. A member of the F ...

* Paul Begala * E. J. Dionne * Pablo Eisenberg (1999– ) * Ted Gayer *

Thane Gustafson Thane Gustafson (born 1944) is a professor of political science at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States. He specializes in comparative politics and the political history of Russia and the former USSR. Life Gustafson holds degr ...

* Charles King *

Aleksander Kwaśniewski Aleksander Kwaśniewski (; born 15 November 1954) is a Polish politician and journalist. He served as the President of Poland from 1995 to 2005. He was born in Białogard, and during communist rule, he was active in the Socialist Union of P ...

(2006– ) * Mark Lance *

Robert Lieber Robert J. Lieber (born September 29, 1941) is an American academic and Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Lieber is the author or editor of a total of seventeen books and has served as th ...

(1982– ) *

Catherine Lotrionte Catherine Lotrionte (born December 19, 1968) was the Associate Director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security at Georgetown University. She also taught in the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) Program and Security Studies ...

Hans Noel Hans C. Noel (born November 3, 1971) is an American political scientist. He is an associate professor at Georgetown University's Department of Government. Noel graduated from Northwestern University 1994 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He ...

Sam Potolicchio Sam Potolicchio (/pɒtɒˈlɪkɪɒ/) is a professor specializing in government, leadership and political communications. He serves as Director of Global and Custom Education at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy Executive Educ ...

* Yossi Shain (1999–2003) *

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951) is an American attorney who was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. She was the first female lieutenant ...

* Sanford J. Ungar * Arturo Valenzuela

History

* Jordan Sand

International Relations

Madeleine Albright Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic ...

* Anthony Clark Arend * Chester Crocker (1972–1981, 1989– ) * Robert Gallucci (1996–2009) *

Chuck Hagel Charles Timothy Hagel ( born October 4, 1946)H. Allen Holmes Henry Allen Holmes (born January 31, 1933) was the United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1982 to 1985 and a career diplomat. Biography Born in Bucharest, Romania to American parents, Holmes received his high school education at St. Paul's S ...

* Seth Jones *

Christopher C. Joyner Christopher Clayton Joyner (May 16, 1948 – September 10, 2011) was Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. With Anthony Clark Arend, he founded the Institute for International Law and Politics, which he directe ...

Matthew Kroenig Matthew Kroenig is an American political scientist, author, national security strategist. He is professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Kroenig is best known for his ...

* Anthony Lake * Robert Litwak * Donald McHenry *

Dale D. Murphy Dale D. Murphy is a professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He teaches international relations, international business, international economics, entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility in the La ...

* David Nalle * Paul R. Pillar *

(2004– ) * Álvaro Uribe

Languages

* Charles Lane * G. Ronald Murphy *

James J. O'Donnell James Joseph O'Donnell (born 1950) is a classical scholar and University Librarian at Arizona State University. He formerly served as University Professor at Georgetown University (2012-2015) and as Provost of Georgetown University from 2002– ...

* Deborah Tannen

Law

Charles F. Abernathy Charles F. Abernathy (born 1946) is an American legal scholar who works as a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a graduate of Harvard University and of Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the la ...

T. Alexander Aleinikoff Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff (born 1952) is Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School in New York City. He was a law professor and dean at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He served, from 2010 t ...

* Walter Berns *

Norman Birnbaum Norman Birnbaum (July 21, 1926 – January 4, 2019) was an American sociologist. He was an emeritus professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and a member of the editorial board of ''The Nation''. Early life He was educated in New Yo ...

* M. Gregg Bloche * Rosa Brooks * David D. Cole *

Viet D. Dinh Viet D. Dinh ( vi, Đinh Đồng Phụng Việt; born February 22, 1968) is a lawyer and a legal scholar who is Chief Legal and Policy Officer of Fox Corporation and who served as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2 ...

* Peter Edelman * Lawrence O. Gostin * Pamela Harris * Judith Richards Hope * Robert Katzmann * Richard J. Leon (1997– ) *

David J. McCarthy, Jr. David J. McCarthy Jr. is Dean EmeritusDavid J. McCarthy.
Georgetown Law, 2011 ...

(1965– ) *

Naomi Mezey Naomi Jewel Mezey is an American legal scholar and is a professor of law at Georgetown University. Mezey contributes significantly to the field of law and culture, with additional scholarly interests in legal theory ( jurisprudence) and trans ...

Jeffrey P. Minear Jeffrey P. Minear was the counselor to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Minear began work at the Supreme Court on September 11, 2006. Previously he had been senior litigation counsel and assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice ...

Robert Pitofsky Robert Pitofsky (December 27, 1929 – October 6, 2018) was an American lawyer and politician who was the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission of the United States from April 11, 1995, to May 31, 2001. He had previously been Dean of the Geor ...

* John Podesta * Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz * Mark Tushnet * David Vladeck

Medicine

* Ron Waksman

Philosophy

Alfonso Gomez-Lobo Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. ...

Horace Romano Harré Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his '' ...

Jesse Mann Jesse Aloysius Mann (May 18, 1922 – April 10, 2016), a native of Washington, D.C., was an American educator of philosophy. Education Mann graduated from Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. He earned a Ph.D. at the Catholic University ...

Hans-Martin Sass Hans-Martin Sass (born 4 December 1935), is a bioethicist. He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and a Senior Research Scholar Emeritus at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington ...

Nancy Sherman Nancy Sherman (born 1951) is a distinguished university professor and professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. She was also the inaugural Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. Sherman is the author of several bo ...

* Karen Stohr

Science

Rachel Barr Rachel Barr is a professor at Georgetown University. She is currently the co-director of graduate studies in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on understanding the learning and memory mechanisms that devel ...

* Edward M. Barrows * Daniel Djakiew * Dietrich Grönemeyer *

Cal Newport Calvin C. Newport (born 1982) is an American nonfiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. Background and education Cal Newport was born June 23, 1982. He completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmou ...

Karl H. Pribram Karl H. Pribram (; ; February 25, 1919 – January 19, 2015) was a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford Univers ...

* Richard Schlegel

Sociology

* Donna Brazile * Victor Cha * Michael Eric Dyson (2007– ) * Colman McCarthy

Theology

* Jacques Berlinerblau *

John Esposito John Louis Esposito (born May 19, 1940) is an Italian-American academic, professor of Middle Eastern and religious studies, and scholar of Islamic studies, who serves as Professor of Religion, International Affairs, and Islamic Studies at Geo ...

Chester Gillis Chester L. Gillis is the former Dean of Georgetown College, Professor in the Department of Theology, and the founding Director of the Program on the Church and Interreligious Dialogue in the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs ...

* John Haught

Previous faculty

* Royden B. Davis (1966–1989) *

Benedict Joseph Flaget Benedict Joseph Flaget (November 7, 1763 – February 11, 1850) was a French-born Catholic bishop in the United States. He served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown between 1808 and 1839. When the see was transferred to ...

(1795–1798) * Patrick Francis Healy (1866–1882) * Ambrose Maréchal (c. 1801)

Art

* José Antonio Bowen * Paul Hume (1950–1977) * Joel E. Siegel

Business

* Thomas Donaldson (1990–1996) * George R. Houston, Jr. *

Robert Pozen Robert Charles Pozen known as "Bob" (born 1946) is an American financial executive with a strong interest in public policy. Pozen currently teaches executives about how to be more productive and serves as an executive coach and mentor, www.bobpozen ...

Economics

Selma Mushkin Selma J. Mushkin (December 31, 1913 – December 2, 1979) was an American health economist and educator. She worked for the U.S. federal government and also spent 17 years teaching at three different academic institutions. Early life and education ...

* Tarik Yousef

Language

Thomas V. Bermingham Thomas Valentine Bermingham, SJ (1918 – 21 November 1998) was an American Jesuit priest, and Classical teacher and scholar. In addition to his academic career at institutions including Fordham University and Georgetown University, he was known ...

(c. 1950s) * Roland Flint (1968–1997) *

Dmitry Grigorieff Archpriest Dmitry Grigorieff (May 14, 1919 – December 8, 2007) was the dean emeritus of the Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Washington D.C. Grigorieff was also an academic scholar and was a retired Professor of Russian language a ...

(1959–1989) * Robert Lado (1960–1980) *

Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...

(1994) * Scott Pilarz (1996–2003) * Michael Scott (1975–1989) * Peter Steinfels (1997–2001)

Law

* Henry Sherman Boutell (1914–1923) *

James R. Browning James Robert Browning (October 1, 1918 – May 6, 2012) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Early life and education Born on October 1, 1918 ...

James Harry Covington James Harry Covington (May 3, 1870 – February 4, 1942) was a United States representative from Maryland and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He founded the major law firm of Covington & Burling. Education and ca ...

(1914–1919) * Samuel Dash (1965–2004) * John F. Davis (c. 1970s) *

Robert Drinan Robert Frederick Drinan (November 15, 1920 – January 28, 2007) was a Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Drinan left office to obey Pope John Paul II's prohibition on political ...

(1981–2007) *

Martin D. Ginsburg Martin David Ginsburg (June 10, 1932 – June 27, 2010) was an American lawyer who specialized in tax law and was the husband of American lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He taught law at Georgetown University Law Center ...

Stephen Haseler Stephen Michael Alan Haseler (9 January 1942 – 20 July 2017) was a British academic and advocate for a British Republic. He was a Professor of Government, author of many books on contemporary politics and economics. Personal life and educati ...

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Stephanie Marie Herseth Sandlin (born December 3, 1970) is an American attorney, university administrator, and politician from the Democratic Party. She served in the United States House of Representatives for from 2004 until 2011. Sandlin was ...

Neal Katyal Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American lawyer and academic. He is a partner at Hogan Lovells and the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center. During the Obama administrati ...

* Steven Marks * Mari Matsuda (–2008) *

Maeve Kennedy McKean Maeve Fahey Kennedy McKean (''née'' Townsend; November 1, 1979 – April 2, 2020) was an American public health official, human rights attorney, and academic. A member of the Kennedy family, she was a daughter of Maryland Lieutenant Governor ...

Bruce Ohr Bruce Genesoke Ohr is a former United States Department of Justice official. A former associate deputy attorney general and former director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), as of February 2018 Ohr was working in t ...

(1984) * John G. Roberts (c. 1992) *

Antonin Scalia Antonin Gregory Scalia (; March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectu ...

(c. 1982) * Joseph E. Schmitz (c. 1990s) * Carlton R. Sickles (1960–1966) * John Wolff (1961–2005)

Government

* As'ad AbuKhalil * Kenneth Baer * Hanna Batatu (1982–1994) * William J. Brennan, Jr. (1990–1994) * Anthony Cordesman *

(c. 2005) *

Douglas J. Feith Douglas Jay Feith (born July 16, 1953) served as the under secretary of Defense for Policy for United States president George W. Bush, from July 2001 until August 2005. He is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. F ...

(2006–2008) *

Geraldine Ferraro Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 March 26, 2011) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee ...

(c. 2000s) *

Anwar Ibrahim Anwar bin Ibrahim ( ms, انور بن ابراهيم, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, IPA: ; born 10 August 1947) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia since November 2022. He served as the 12 ...

(2004–2006) * Jan Karski (1952–1992) *

Jeane Kirkpatrick Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anticommunist, she was a l ...

(1967–1980, 1985) * Claes G. Ryn *

James V. Schall James Vincent Schall (January 20, 1928 – April 17, 2019) was an American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest, teacher, writer, and philosopher. He was, most recently, Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Government at Georgetown Un ...

(1977–2012) *

Joseph P. Vigorito Joseph Phillip Vigorito (November 10, 1918 – February 5, 2003) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania from 1965 to 1977. Early life and education Joe Vigorito was born in Niles, Ohio to Italian immigrant ...

(1977–1978)

History

* Walter Laqueur (1976–1988) *

Colette Mazzucelli Colette Mazzucelli is an American author and academic. She is in her second decade on the graduate faculty at New York University. Mazzucelli has pioneered initiatives in technology-mediated learning and directed the first transatlantic multim ...

(c. 1996) * Vladimir Petrov *

Frank M. Snowden, Jr. Frank M. Snowden Jr. (July 17, 1911February 18, 2007), was an American historian and classicist, best known for his study of black people in classical antiquity. He was a Distinguished Professor emeritus of classics at Howard University. Ca ...

* Cyril Toumanoff (1943–1970) * Allen Weinstein (1981–1984)

International Relations

* James R. Clapper (2006–2007) * Jules Davids *

Eleanor Lansing Dulles Eleanor Lansing Dulles (June 1, 1895 – October 30, 1996) was an American writer, professor, and United States Government employee. Her background in economics and her familiarity with European affairs enabled her to fill a number of importan ...

* John Ikenberry (2001–2004) *

Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (; ; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is a German-born American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the preside ...

(1977–1979) * Dennis P. Lockhart (2003–2007) * Louis E. McComas (c. 1890s) * Andrew Natsios (c. 2005) * Robert G. Neumann (1976-c. 1990) * Carroll Quigley * Florence Roisman *

Dennis Ross Dennis B. Ross (born November 26, 1948) is an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill C ...

(2006–2009) *

Paul A. Russo Paul A. Russo (born July 21, 1943) is an American diplomat. He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1986 to 1988, under Ronald Reagan. Biography Russo ...

(1991) *

Sally Shelton-Colby Sally Angela Shelton-Colby (born August 29, 1944) is an American diplomat. She was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia, and Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-An ...

(1991) * Jean Edward Smith * Edmund A. Walsh

Medicine

* Malcolm Mencer Martin (1959–2004)

Philosophy

* Edmund Pellegrino (1978–2013) *

Henry Babcock Veatch Henry Babcock Veatch Jr. (September 26, 1911 – July 9, 1999) was an American philosopher. Life and career Veatch was born September 26, 1911, in Evansville, Indiana. He attended Harvard University, where he received his A.B. and M.A. degre ...

(1973–1983)

Science

* John Braverman (2003–2006) * James Curley (1831–1889) *

Edward D. Freis Edward D. Freis (May 13, 1912 – February 1, 2005) was an American physician and researcher, who received the Albert Lasker Award for his studies of the treatment of hypertension. Early life Edward David Freis was born in Chicago, Illinois on ...

(1957–2005) * Gregory JaczkoMeghan Anzelc
Gregory Jaczko, Ph.D. Physics, Commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
'' American Physical Society / www.aps.org * Robert S. Ledley * Paul McNally (1928–1955) *

Charles Wardell Stiles Charles Wardell Stiles (May 15, 1867 – January 24, 1941) was an American parasitologist born in Spring Valley, New York. He was notable for working on a campaign against hookworm infestation in the American South, where it had been found to ca ...

William J. Thaler William J. Thaler, Ph.D. (December 4, 1925 – June 5, 2005) was an American experimental physicist. Working for the Office of Naval Research (ONR) at the Naval Research Laboratory in the 1950s, Thaler developed an early warning system to detect the ...

(1960–1976, 1979–2006)

Theology

Thomas M. King Thomas Mulvihill King, S.J. (born May 9, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, died June 23, 2009 in Washington, D.C.) was a professor of theology at Georgetown University. King entered the Society of Jesus in 1951 after completing undergraduate st ...

(1968–2009) *

Richard A. McCormick Richard A. McCormick (1922 – February 12, 2000) was a leading liberal Catholic moral theologian who reshaped Catholic thought in the United States. He wrote many journal articles on Catholic social teachings and moral theory. He was an ex ...

* Arthur Peacocke (1994)

Fictional

* In '' Stargate Atlantis'', the main character, Dr. Elizabeth Weir, taught a political science course at Georgetown before going to Atlantis. * Jason Bourne, the main character in the novels of

Robert Ludlum Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original '' The Bourne Trilogy'' series. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated b ...

and their subsequent film adaptations, is a linguistics professor at Georgetown in '' The Bourne Legacy'',

Eric Van Lustbader Eric Van Lustbader (born December 24, 1946) is an American author of thriller and fantasy novels. He has published as Eric Lustbader, Eric V. Lustbader, and Eric Van Lustbader. He is a graduate of New York's Stuyvesant High School and Columbia ...

's 2004 novel continuing Ludlum's series. * Henry McCord, the husband of

United States Secretary of State The United States secretary of state is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State. The office holder is one of the highest ranking members of the president's ...

Elizabeth McCord, is a religion professor at Georgetown on '' Madam Secretary''.

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