New PJP Director: Prof. Mark Lance

Following the conclusion of the term of outgoing director Henry Schwarz, the PJP Advisory Board has elected Prof. Mark Lance as the Program's new Director. Following is a short bio by Prof. Lance:

Hey folks.  Henry says that some don't know me.  So here's an introduction.

I'm a professor of philosophy at Georgetown.  I was hired in 1991 as an assistant professor.  My main areas of research interest in philosophy are philosophy of language, logic, and epistemology, though of late I've been doing more work in moral and political philosophy.  I came to peace studies through two routes: my work in activism and my partner's involvement in the field.  I've been an activist on a wide range of social justice and peace issues since the mid-80s.  In the early 90s, my partner -- Amy Hubbard, a sociologist who got her PhD from the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict at Syracuse -- along with Sam Marullo in the GU sociology department, and Fr. Julio Julietti -- no longer at GU -- enlisted me
in an effort to start a peace studies program.  The result of our work was the Program on Justice and Peace.   After we got it up and running, I directed the program for its first five years and led it through the approval process in Georgetown College and the SFS.  In that period I also joined the national board of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development, and later served as co- chair of the board.  (COPRED merged during my time on the board with the Peace Studies Association to form the Peace and Justice Studies Association which is the national organization for the field.)  I also served as co-editor, for 5 years, of Peace and Change -- one of the main journals in the field.

In the late 90s,  I got some outside offers and negotiated a change in my position to a joint appointment with JUPS.  So I am now 1/4 in JUPS and 3/4 in philosophy, and technically also professor of justice and peace.

And I've been on the steering committee of JUPS throughout its existence.  I've also taught many courses for the program, including the introduction to J&P, the senior seminar, Ethics of Nonviolence, Civil Disobedience and Civil responsibility, and recently a yearly course on anarchist theory.

So that's a thumbnail of my relevant involvement with the program and the interdisciplinary field.

If anyone has the urge to check out my cv it is on my web page www.homepage.mac.com/abuemma  Just click on "files to download" and follow the obvious links.

Yours,
Mark

We look forward to many exciting years under Prof Lance's leadership and extend our gratitude to Prof. Henry Schwarz for his many years of distinguished service!