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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Visit the Interdisciplinary Programs webpage for more information about our master’s, doctoral and certificate programs.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 

(On Sabbatical 2023-24)
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
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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

Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Master of Science in Global Infectious Disease
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

Co-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 relating to Global Health: 
    • Cash-like Vouchers 
    • Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 
    • Social Support 
    • Empowerment Training 
    • Health Infrastructure
    • Public Work Programs

Pamela Saunders

Director, Master of Science in Aging & Health
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
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