Edward Burnett Lawson (SFS’24, MSFS’25) fought in World War I before enrolling at Georgetown. Lawson went on to join the U.S. State Department Foreign Service, serving as the U.S. Ambassador…
Professor Jan Karski began teaching at Georgetown in 1954. This was the beginning of a career at the University that lasted 30 years. Karski had made his name as a…
The first female students arrived at the School of Foreign Service in 1943 and—although they would face a variety of unique obstacles, limitations, and quota systems that lasted nearly three…
Joseph Santoiana, born in 1911, graduated from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in 1931. Santoiana joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940, where he would work for 33 years,…
Abba P. Schwartz, a prominent State Department official and lifetime champion for refugees, dedicated his life’s work to his belief that all refugees and immigrants should be welcome in the…
In 1978, a Puerto Rican woman made headlines for filing a lawsuit for racial discrimination in the Washington, D.C. District Court against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she…
Lane Kirkland (SFS’48) was a prominent American labor leader, serving as President of The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of unions in…
Diego Cortes Ascencio (SFS’52) is perhaps best known for spending 61 days in captivity in Bogota, Colombia under the control of guerrilla fighters. Though those 61 days are some of…
Shlomo Argov (SFS’52) was once described as “from Jerusalem and the whole world.” An assassination attempt on his life on June 3, 1982 by a militant Palestinian group, the Abu…
During his tenure at Georgetown, Professor Charles Pirtle was known as a “geopolitical legend.” Pirtle, who began teaching at the School of Foreign Service in 1982, is known for creating…
