People

The faculty of Georgetown College and its diverse departments includes many who pursue research and teach on the nations and peoples of the Americas. They are listed here by department, with links to their web resumes.

Art, Music, and Theater

Biology

Economics

English

  • Randall Bass New technologies, pedagogy, educational change
  • Louise Bernard American and post-colonial literatures
  • Gay Cima 18th and 19th century black and white American women critics
  • Scott Heath African-American literature, black public culture
  • Edward Ingebretsen Gothic and popular culture, Gay and lesbian studies
  • Wayne Knoll Modern American literature, poetry
  • Dana Luciano 19th-century US literature, feminist and queer theory
  • Lucy Maddox American Indian literature, literature of the American West
  • Mark McMorris 20th century poetry & poetry writing, Caribbean poetry
  • Lori Merish 19th-century American and Anglophone Caribbean literature and culture
  • Angelyn Mitchell American, African American and Caribbean literatures, critical theory
  • Patricia O'Connor Grammar of agency and the functions of story in everyday lives,  prison narratives, Appalachian literature
  • Ricardo Ortiz Latino literature, comparative literature
  • Christine So Contemporary Asian American literature, race and popular culture, theories of consumption
  • Norma Tilden Twentieth-Century American Literature: Literary Nonfiction

French

Georgetown Public Policy Institute

  • Jonathan Ladd Political behavior, American political system
  • Mark Rom American politics and public policy, social welfare policy.
  • R. Kent Weaver American and comparative social policy, politics of expertise

 

Government

  • John Bailey Mexican politics, national and public security in the Western Hemisphere
  • Michael Bailey American politics and political economy: trade, Congress, election law, the Supreme Court,
  • Andrew Bennett American foreign policy process, international relations theory, qualitative research methods
  • George Carey U.S. Political Theory, foundations and development of American political institutions
  • Roy Godson World politics, transnational relations, and security studies
  • Michael Hanmer American Politics: voting behavior, public opinion, electoral reform, political methodology
  • James Lengle American presidential elections
  • Eusebio Mujal-Leon European and Latin American politics
  • Douglas Reed American constitutional law, judicial politics, American politics
  • Michele Swers Congress, women and politics, issues of representation
  • Arturo Valenzuela Origins and consolidation of democracy, Latin American politics, electoral systems, civil-military relations, political parties, regime transitions, U.S.-Latin American relations
  • W. Clyde Wilcox Public opinion and electoral behavior, religion and politics, gender politics, politics of social issues

History

Philosophy

Psychology

  • Sandra Calvert Impact of information technologies on children's attention, comprehension, and social behavior
  • Norman Finkel Psychology, public policy, and law,
  • Deborah Phillips Early child development, environmental influences on development, child poverty
  • Jennifer Woolard Adolescent development in the family and legal contexts

Sociology and Anthropology

  • Denise Brennan Global sex trade, human trafficking, migration, women's labor and Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Melissa Fisher Gender and class in America, Wall Street and global cities, corporate anthropology
  • William McDonald Crime and the administration of criminal justice
  • Joseph Palacios Latin American and Latino sociology, sociology of religion, political culture, civil society, social theory
  • Timothy Wickham-Crowley Political sociology, religion and society, revolution and society

Spanish and Portuguese

  • Gwen Kirkpatrick Latin American literatures, gender
  • Naomi Moniz Brazilian, Portuguese and Latin American studies, modernism and postmodernism, identity formation, cultural hegemony and difference, feminist studies.
  • Bárbara Mújica Early modern Spanish literature and contemporary Latin American culture.
  • Joanne Rappaport Ethnicity, historical anthropology, new social movements, literacy, race, Andean ethnography and ethnohistory
  • Verónica Salles-Reese Latin American literature
  • Vivaldo Santos Brazilian literature, Brazilian popular music, Brazilian cinema

Theology

  • Chester Gillis U.S. Catholic church, history of Catholicism, and the papacy,
  • Diana Hayes Womanist theology, Black theology, U.S. liberation theologies, contextual theologies, religion and public life
  • Otto Hentz the Catholic church in the modern world, Christianity and Jesus Christ, systematic theology
  • Frederick Ruf Literature and religion