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Faculty in Residence
FIR
Program Description
- Student and faculty interaction outside of the
formal classroom setting is considered an essential
characteristic of a vibrant intellectual life. As one
way to foster this interaction, the Faculty in
Residence program was created to provide faculty and
their families the opportunity to live and interact
with students while residing in a specifically
designed apartment in the students' residence hall.
The Faculty in Residence work in close partnership
with the Residence Life staff in enhancing the
intellectual environment, supporting academic
excellence, providing opportunities for other faculty
to interact with students, overseeing a
Living-Learning Community, and integrating
intellectual thought through informal and formal
interactions.
Typical programs provide opportunities for
intellectual, artistic, and social learning
experiences. Examples include but are not limited to:
§ Inviting another faculty member and a group of
students to dinner
§ Showing a movie in the faculty residence
§ Organizing a group of students to attend a cultural
event or lecture on or off campus
§ Inviting a faculty member to give a talk at the
residence
§ Coordinating workshops
§ Offering the function room of the residence to
student groups for meetings or program events of their
own
§ Inviting a speaker lecturing elsewhere on campus to
come by for an informal follow-up discussion
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Current FIR Bios
Dr. Louise Bernard
Louise Bernard (Ph.D. Yale) is an Assistant Professor
in the Department of English where she teaches courses
in American and Post-Colonial literatures with emphasis
on autobiography, travel writing, and the novel.
She serves on advisory boards for the Program in African
American Studies, the Program on Justice and Peace
Studies, and the University Steering Committee for the
Humanities and Human Rights Initiative.
As the Faculty-in-Residence in LXR (East Campus) ,
Dr. Bernard also advises the American Culture & Politics
Community. The ACP hosts and engages in a regular
series of events, lively debates, and off-campus
excursions which aim to explore the following questions:
How are U.S. politics reflected in the cultural
imagination (locally and globally)? What specific
forms do artistic contributions to American political
life use and/or challenge? How might we define and
understand the political impulse of contemporary art?
Student members are active in a number of volunteer
projects and campus groups (i.e., Students Taking Action
Now: Darfur) as well as local print media and university
television.
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Tad Howard
Tad Howard (M.A. University of Chicago) is an
Assistant Dean in the College. He is in his eighth
year in the College Dean's office where he advises
sophomore and transfer students, as well as pre-medical
students and those planning to study abroad. In
his role in the College, Dean Howard counsels students
making decisions about majors and minors, with a special
attention toward balancing academic requirements and
curricular freedom.
As Faculty-in-Residence in Kennedy Hall, Dean Howard
hosts social events, academic events, academic events
that feel like social events, and social events that
feel like academic events. He encourages students
to explore the similarities between their academic and
personal interests, and to reconnect what they may see
as separate: the intellectual and the popular. He
hopes to promote the concept of the Public Intellectual,
the figure who bridges the ever-widening gap between
popular culture (often seen within academia as unworthy
of serious examination) and academic culture (often seen
by the public as esoteric, self-aggrandizing, and of
little real-world consequence) to the ultimate benefit
of students, the university, and the community at large.
Dean Howard is addicted to crossword puzzles, watches
basketball, plays guitar, frequents the Black Cat, and
lives in Kennedy Hall with his wife Susan (democratic
legislative aide, former indie radio DJ, entertainment
blog aficionado, co-frequenter of the Black Cat).
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Dr. Marilyn McMorrow
Professor Marilyn McMorrow, who is also a Religious
of the Sacred Heart, has been at Georgetown since 1992,
teaching courses in the Government Department and the
School of Foreign Service that focus on the political
theory of international relations and on ethical
analysis of urgent moral problems in world politics,
such as human rights violations, absolute poverty and
hunger, justifiable and unjustifiable resort to force,
plight of refugees and migrants, and environmental
rescue and repair.
As a Faculty Member in Residence, Professor McMorrow
loves to host or plan events that look at contemporary
issues in world politics or national politics, for
example, the effect of AIDS on HIV+ orphans in
Sub-Saharan Africa or election campaigns and other
political events here in the nation's capital. A
favorite activity during the run-up to the last
presidential election, for instance, was inviting anyone
interested to watch the campaign debates—and then Jon
Stewart's Daily Show!
Professor McMorrow who loves sports is particularly
dedicated to the success of Hoya B-Ball! A diehard fan.
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Dr. Dan Porterfield
Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph.D. (C '83), is Georgetown
University's Vice President for Public Affairs and
Strategic Development. In this role he leads
Georgetown's communications, government relations, and
community relations efforts and assists the President of
the University with strategic planning. An assistant
professor in the English Department, Dr. Porterfield
regularly teaches courses such as Human Rights: A
Culture in Crisis, The Poetry of American Prisoners, and
Public Education at the Crossroads.
Dr. Porterfield lives in Copley Hall with his wife Karen
A. Herrling (C '84, L '90) and their three daughters.
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Professor Tatiana Olbrich
Coming soon...
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Georgetown
University Campus Ministry serves the Residence Halls
with over 20 chaplains across campus and one in each
residence hall. Meet your Chaplain(s)-in-Residence
and learn more about this unique and valuable group.
