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“Every Single Hour Mattered”: Graduate Students Help Evacuate Hundreds from Afghanistan
As the Taliban swept into Kabul on August 15, Timothy “Tito” Torres (IBP’21) was at a hotel in Berlin. He had just finished a course module with fellow classmates enrolled in the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) and McDonough School of Business Master of Arts in International Business and Policy (MA-IBP) program and had
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MSFS Student Spotlight: Kevin Russell (’21)
Read an interview with second year MSFS student Kevin Russell as he discusses his experience at Georgetown and how he hopes to use the knowledge he has gained to continue working on economic development and social impact projects that address social inequalities after graduation. Why did you choose MSFS? In an increasingly globalized and diverse
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MSFS Welcomes New Global Politics and Security Concentration Chair, Prof. Jodi Vittori
MSFS extends our welcome to Professor Jodi Vittori as the newest member of the program’s Leadership Team. Prof. Vittori will join MSFS as a Professor of Practice and co-chair of the Global Politics and Security (GPS) concentration. Professor Vittori is an expert on the linkages of corruption, state fragility, illicit finance, and U.S. national security.
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MSFS Welcomes New Deputy Director, Ashley Thomas Lenihan
MSFS is thrilled to welcome SFS alumna Ashley Thomas Lenihan back to Georgetown as the new Deputy Director of the M.S. in Foreign Service program. Ashley Thomas Lenihan comes to MSFS as an expert on economic statecraft, foreign investment, and national security, and author of Balancing Power without Weapons. Her policy work in the U.K. and Europe
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SSP Recommended Reading, Viewing, and Listening, Summer 2021
Most years, we ask the SSP community what books they would recommend to students who want to keep their minds busy over the summer. For 2021, we’re changing things up! We asked our students, alumni, and faculty what fiction books, movies, television shows, and podcasts they would recommend. The only thing not allowed? Nonfiction books. Their responses
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MSFS Awards Full-Tuition Scholarships through Futures, African Student, and McHenry Scholarships
MSFS is thrilled to introduce the Fall 2021 recipients of the inaugural MSFS Futures Scholarship, the African Student Scholarship, and the McHenry Fellowship. These exceptional individuals were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, including the largest number of applicants we have received at MSFS in the past decade. The three were chosen because
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Alumni Spotlight: Payne Fellow Jackie Rojas (GHD’19) Reflects on her International Development Journey
From a young age, Jackie Rojas (GHD’19) developed a unique perspective on life in developing countries through hearing her parents’ stories of tumultuous times in Venezuela and El Salvador. These stories, and seeing the challenges faced by her extended family in Venezuela, have always been very present in her mind, and eventually led her to
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Alumnus Jon Ossoff (SFS’09) Wins Historic Georgia Senate Race, Says SFS Training Has Been “Indispensable”
On the morning of January 6, the eyes of the country were on SFS alumnus Jon Ossoff (SFS’09) as he thanked voters for electing him in a U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia that will change the balance of power in the United States. Ossoff and fellow Democratic candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican incumbents
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Ethics Retreat 2019: Thinking Through Real-Life Ethics Issues in Development
GHD’s first-year students participated in the Ethics Retreat on September 20-21, 2019, a signature component of the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University. Sitting cross-legged and propped up by colorful cushions in a circle at Georgetown University’s Calcagnini Contemplative Center next door to the Shenandoah Mountains in Virginia, students and faculty gathered to think
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Legendary SFS Professor Charles Pirtle Offers a Retrospective on His Beloved Map of the Modern World Course
On July 1, 2020, the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Georgetown Alumni Association hosted legendary former SFS professor Charles Pirtle to share a retrospective on his Map of the Modern World course. The talk was part of the SFS Online & On Topic virtual event series. Pirtle is largely credited with being the