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Professor Michael Bracy Hosts the Music Policy Forum Intensive at Georgetown University

Professor Michael Bracy is the founder of the Music Policy Forum, an organization that seeks to highlight the value of music and music education through strategic partnerships…

February 12, 2026

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April Brassard Directs Orlando by Sarah Ruhl 

This past November, Professor April Brassard mounted her production of Orlando by Sarah Ruhl in the Department of Performing Arts’ Gonda Theatre. A stage adaptation of Virginia…

February 12, 2026

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Prof. Van Tran Nguyen Delivers Keynote at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference

This past fall, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) sought to deconstruct the binary between real and virtual. Professor Van Tran Nguyen was featured in a…

February 12, 2026

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Faculty Accomplishments- December 2025

Professor Christine Evans received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities for 2026, recognizing her ongoing contributions as an…

December 16, 2025

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Professor Benjamin Harbert Awarded the 2025 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize.

The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology—featuring a chapter by Professor Benjamin Harbert titled “Images Beyond Consent: Developing an Ethics ofé…

November 20, 2025

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Faculty Accomplishments- September 2025

This past summer, professors from the Department of Performing Arts shared their expertise worldwide.  Professor Anthony R. DelDonna delivered a keynote at the Università…

September 25, 2025

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Dancing with Purpose

When Darlene Leysath Robinson (SFS’87) and Valerie Settles McDowell (B’87) were students, they noticed a void in Black representation and activities engaging Black students…

November 14, 2024

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New Theater Professor Van Tran Nguyen’s The Motherload to premiere at Hawai’i Film Festival

Newly appointed Assistant Professor for the Theater and Performance Studies Program, Van Tran Nguyen is a Vietnamese American artist-scholar, filmmaker, curator, and multimedia…

September 9, 2024

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Associate Professor, Carlos Simon awarded the Magis Prize

Department of Performing Arts Faculty member and Grammy award winning composer, Carlos Simon was one of three associate professors awarded the Magis Prize by Georgetown.…

September 9, 2024

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Instrument of the State, A Century of Music in Louisiana’s Angola Prison- by Professor Benjamin Harbert.

In his new book, Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana’s Angola Prison (Oxford University Press, 2023), Georgetown music professor…

June 3, 2024