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  • Working Women in Jordan: Education, ambition and creative agency
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    Working Women in Jordan: Education, ambition and creative agency

    SFS Professor Fida Adely explores social change in Jordan through the lens of working women in her 2024 book.

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  • Using Social Media Data to Predict Migration | Massive Data and Displacement
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    Using Social Media Data to Predict Migration | Massive Data and Displacement

    What if social media could predict a migration crisis before it happens? The Massive Data and Displacement (MaDD) project is a collaborative initiative between SFS’s Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) and the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute (MDI), led by Professors Katharine Donato, Lisa Singh and Ali Arab. In partnership with the United Nations…

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    Georgetown University mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Theodore (Ted) Moran (1943-2025)

    Dear SFS community, I write with the sad news that Theodore (Ted) H. Moran, emeritus professor at SFS and a leading scholar in international business and foreign direct investment, died on Sunday, April 27, 2025. He was 81. Ted held the Marcus Wallenberg Chair in International Business. At SFS, he taught for decades and directed…

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  • SFS and The Earth Commons welcome Andrew Steer to Faculty
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    SFS and The Earth Commons welcome Andrew Steer to Faculty

    Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service (SFS) and The Earth Commons, Georgetown University’s Institute for Environment & Sustainability, welcome Sir Andrew Steer to the school’s faculty as a Distinguished Research Professor of the Practice in Environment and Economics on May 1. Steer most recently served as the president and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund. He will…

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  • Alumna Kavya Shah on Publishing with a Professor
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    Alumna Kavya Shah on Publishing with a Professor

    For Kavya Shah (SFS’24), publishing alongside a faculty mentor became a reality when a piece authored by her and SFS Professor Rebecca Katz was published last fall.

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  • SFS welcomes Michael Sulmeyer to Faculty
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    SFS welcomes Michael Sulmeyer to Faculty

    SFS welcomes Michael Sulmeyer to the school’s faculty as a Professor of the Practice and director of cyber programs within the Security Studies Program.

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  • Maps with Mark | Ep. 2 Maryland in Africa
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    Maps with Mark | Ep. 2 Maryland in Africa

    SFS Professor Mark Giordano explores a map of Maryland in Africa—a short-lived country on the West African coast that became part of Liberia.

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  • Examining Ukraine’s path forward three years post-invasion
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    Examining Ukraine’s path forward three years post-invasion

    Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the future of the war is murkier than ever.

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  • The New Administration and Asia
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    The New Administration and Asia

    From shifting alliance structures and trade tensions to diplomatic maneuvering with North Korea, SFS Professor Victor Cha explores how President Trump’s foreign policy in Asia may evolve.

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  • The New Administration and Migration
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    The New Administration and Migration

    SFS Professor Elizabeth Ferris explores Trump’s migration rhetoric and short- and long-term impacts on immigrants, the economy and society.

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