Archive: In the News
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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
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Celebrating Pep Band’s 100-Year History
Recently, Georgetown University showcased the incredible 100-year history of the Pep Band. “Since 1922, the band has played for U.S. presidents, in DC parades and at…
October 25, 2022
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Professor Soyica Colbert receives ATHE’s Award for Outstanding Book
Professor Soyica Colbert received the Outstanding Book Award for her monograph Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry (Yale University Press, 2021) from the…
July 27, 2022
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Album “Acorn” by Prof. Jay Hammond’s collective Trippers and Askers reviewed in Guardian
Led by Georgetown University Music Program Professor, this US collective impress with a subtle, ambient debut inspired by Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Read the July,…
August 13, 2021