Faculty and Staff
The Department of Performing Arts teaching faculty features many leading scholars, directors, performers, designers, playwrights, dramaturgs, choreographers, critics, technicians, and community-based and multimedia artists in the field.
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Soyica Colbert Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Soyica Colbert, former interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in theatre arts and performance studies, which will support the development of her forthcoming book At Freedom’s Gate.
April 12, 2023

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Film About Legendary Georgetown Professor and Holocaust Witness Jan Karski Premieres on PBS
The film is based on the stage production Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, which was created by Georgetown’s Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, directed and co-authored by The Lab’s artistic and executive director Derek Goldman.
March 13, 2023

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Benjamin Harbert Establishes Multimedia Journal for Ethnomusicology
A new web-based journal is upending how ethnomusicologists conduct and publish research. The Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology (JAVEM) is a peer-reviewed streaming journal, which combines the rich medium of film with the rigor of academic inquiry.
January 31, 2023