I teach in the Culture and Politics Program (CULP) at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS). CULP is an interdisciplinary research, teaching, and collaboration platform that is unique to Georgetown, linking scholarship related to changing global practices from the College and the SFS.
As an undergraduate education-focused program within the SFS, the Culture and Politics major empowers students to think across disciplines and investigate how culture and politics shape and transform communities, institutions, practices, technologies, and artworks worldwide. Students craft their own thematic concentrations rooted in questions, of culture, knowledge, and power. Through self-selected coursework oriented around a chosen theme, the major fosters an environment for critical inquiry, creative engagement and collaborative learning. The high degree of flexibility afforded to students enables them to take the lead in their learning by designing their own program of study according to their individual interests and talents.
The program’s innovative mission has led to its popularity as one of the largest SFS undergraduate programs, with significant interdisciplinary connections to Justice and Peace Studies, African American Studies, English, Theater and Performance Studies, History, Philosophy, Religion, Anthropology, Sociology, the foreign languages and literatures departments, area studies centers, and technology studies. CULP students recognize that solving real-world problems requires interdisciplinary inquiry, multiple methodologies and ethically grounded research.
The CULP global humanities research seminar series is designed to enhance the program’s research agenda by connecting core faculty with other scholars across the Georgetown campus, including GU-Qatar, and by organizing exchanges with leading scholars who address the global publics necessary for political action in the twenty-first century. Faculty seminars also enhance undergraduate knowledge of qualitative research methodologies in a transnational context.
For more information on the CULP courses I teach, the CULP research seminar series, and other CULP program information, return to the home page or navigate to “Teaching” on the side menu bar.