The faculty at Georgetown University have expertise on a wide range of modern day issues. In particular, our faculty experts within the Interdisciplinary Programs at the Graduate School can speak on issues encompassing the humanities, social sciences, health, education, communication, technology, science and more.
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Addiction Policy
Regina LaBelle
Director, Master of Science in Addiction Policy & Practice
Initiative Director, Addiction & Public Policy at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Subject Matter Areas:
- Addiction Policy
- Addiction
Communication and Media
Leticia Bode
Research Director, Knight-Georgetown Institute
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Social Media and Politics
- Misinformation
- Political Comedy
- Political Socialization
J.R. Osborn
Associate Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- History of print (specifically in the Arab/Islamic world)
- Museums
- History of Writing
- Typography and Graphic Design
Diana Owen
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Media and Politics
- Elections and Voting Behavior
- Civic education and civic engagement
Jeanine Turner
Professor and Director, Master of Arts in Communication, Culture & Technology
Annette N. Shelby Chair in Business & Leadership Communication
Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business
Subject Matter Areas:
- Digital Communication
- Leadership Communication
- Online presence
- Digital Media Use
- Telemedicine
Data Science and Technology
Trevor Adriaanse
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
Jeffrey Jacobs
Assistant Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Empirical Political Economy and International Relations
- Data Ethics, AI and Law, Public Policy
- Uses of Data in the Liberal Arts and Humanities
Nakul Padalkar
Assistant Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Blockchain & Distributed ledgers
- Industrial AI & Computer Vision
Environment
Vishal Agrawal
Henry J. Blommer Family Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business
Professor of Operations & Information Management, McDonough School of Business
Academic Director, Business of Sustainability Initiative
Subject Matter Areas:
- Sustainable Operations
- New Product Development
- Supply Chain Management
- Managerial challenges in business and the environment
- The effect of consumer behavior on operations, energy and sustainability
Abdel-Razak Kadry, DVM, Ph.D., DABT
Former Senior Research Advisor, U.S. EPA’s Center for Computational Toxicology & Exposure (CCTE)
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Toxicology and health risk assessment expert with a focus on food safety and food defense
Lee Pinkowitz
Associate Director, Georgetown’s Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business
Subject Matter Areas:
- Corporate cash holdings
- Corporate governance
Bob Sonawane
Retired Toxicologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Toxicology and health risk assessment of environmental agents of public health concern
- Performing and managing health risk assessment of environmental agents of public health concern
- Providing technical support to the regulatory programs of the U.S. EPA
Safak Yucel
Associate Director, Business of Sustainability Initiative
Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business
Subject Matter Areas:
- Renewable and conventional energy sources (solar, wind, biomass, etc.)
- Governmental policies (subsidizing renewable energy, individual consumers investments in renewable energy, government directing utility firms to invest in renewable energy)
- Electric vehicles (and the broad range of issues- adoption, charging, batteries, second life)
- Climate change
- Business implications of climate change
- Capacity investment in electricity
- Energy supply chains
- Carbon management (off-setting, in-setting, government policies to limit carbon emissions)
- EPA
- Business of climate change
- Business of renewable energy and sustainability
- Language Skill: Turkish
Humanities and Education
Bryan Alexander
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Future of Higher Education
- Educational Technology
- Climate Change and Education
Edward Maloney
Executive Director, Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship
Founding Director, Master of Arts in Learning, Design, & Technology
Professor of the Practice
Subject Matter Areas:
- Higher Education
- Educational Technology
- Digital Learning
- Artificial Intelligence in Education
Michelle May-Curry
Curator at DC’s Commission on the Arts & Humanities
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Public Humanities
- Curation
Ricardo Ortiz
Director, Master of Arts in Engaged & Public Humanities
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Public Humanities and Higher Education
- Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
- U.S. Latinx Studies
- LGBTQ Studies
- Literary and Cultural Studies
Lourdes Ortega
Faculty Director, Initiative for Multilingual Studies
Interim Program Director, Master of Arts in Educational Transformation
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Applied linguistics
- Second language acquisition
- Multilingualism
Douglas Reed
Director, Master of Arts in Educational Transformation
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Educational politics and policymaking
- American political development
- American constitutional law
Kristin Sinclair
Assistant Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Place and community-based education
- Youth activism in education
Crissa Stephens
Assistant Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Applied linguistics
- Bilingual education/ESL
- Education policy, equity and access within institutional contexts
Sabrina Wesley-Nero
Assistant Director, Master of Arts in Educational Transformation
Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Teacher education
- Culturally and linguistically relevant education and curriculum
- English as a Second Language, Spanish bilingual, Spanish immersion, and general education K-12 classrooms
- Community-based learning and School-based praxis
Science and Health
Lucile Adams-Campbell
Distinguished University Professor
Associate Director, Minority Health & Health Disparities Research
Program Director, Master of Science in Epidemiology
Subject Matter Areas:
- Clinical Trials
- Lifestyle Interventions
- Cancer Epidemiology
Sonya Barsness
Adjunct Lecturer
Subject Matter Areas:
- Aging, Policy, Dementia
- Long-term care, senior living, person-centered care
- Multi-generational classroom
Traci Bethea
Assistant Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Sleep
- Breast Cancer
- Environmental Epidemiology
Chiranjeev Dash
Assistant Director of Health Disparities Research
Associate Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Cancer Biomarkers
- Cancer Epidemiology
Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D.
Director, PharmedOut and Urban Herbs Project
Co-Director, Master of Science in Health and the Public Interest
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Unethical pharmaceutical and medical device marketing
- Herbal medicine and dietary supplements
Dr. Christian Hunter
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Topics related to Global Health
- Student safety in high risk environments
- Novel technology for assessment of malnutrition in children and snakebite injury
- Human subjects protection and human studies ethics and practice
Christopher Loffredo
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Bladder Cancer, Liver Cancer, Lung Cancer
- Cancer Biomarkers
- Child Health and Human Development
Suzanne O’Neill
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Health Psychology
- Breast Cancer
- Population Science
Dr. Babatunji Oni
Director of Graduate Studies, Master of Science in Global Infectious Disease
Assistant Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Business administration, public health, and project management committed to the cause of expanding global health equity and improving the quality of clinical care and outcomes
- Effective clinical care intersects with sound business practices and a keen awareness of the public health needs of the local population
John Quattrochi
Program Director, Master of Science in Global Health
Associate Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Topics related to Global Health
- Cash-like Vouchers
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- Social Support
- Empowerment Training
- Health Infrastructure
- Public Work Programs
Pamela Saunders
Associate Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Aging, Health and Gerontology
- Language in Aging, Narrative Medicine
- Medical Education, Empathy and Doctor Patient Communication
Raymond Scott Turner, Ph.D., MD
Director, Memory Disorders Program
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and mild cognitive impairment
- Biomarkers, clinical trials