Dean of Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences Search

Leadership Profile

This Leadership Profile is intended to provide information about Georgetown University and the position of dean of Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences. It is designed to assist qualified individuals in assessing their interest in the opening.

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The Opportunity

Georgetown University invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the position of dean of
Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences (CAS). The College is critical to Georgetown’s identity as a
student-centered research university located in the nation’s capital. The College and the university
have a powerful sense of community, and the CAS is thriving within a university that continues to
grow in scope, stature and recognition.

The dean is the academic leader of CAS, the oldest and largest school within the university, home
to 26 academic departments and 12 interdisciplinary programs across the arts and sciences. The
dean is responsible for supporting, strengthening, and diversifying a strong faculty, staff, and
student body of both undergraduate and graduate students while enhancing the environment for
teaching and research.

The dean will enhance and promote programs within and across disciplines – both within the
College and in partnership with the other university deans. The dean is responsible for maintaining
and promoting the College’s commitment to an exceptional education, achieved through
substantive student-faculty interaction in and beyond the classroom; fostering a strong, diverse,
welcoming and inclusive community in which all can flourish; pedagogical innovation; active,
reflective, and experiential learning; application of theory to practice; artistic production; thriving
faculty, graduate and undergraduate research; and the development of the critical thinking,
writing, and analytical skills that are the hallmarks of a liberal arts education.

The new dean will contribute to several crucial efforts currently underway:
▪ Leading the CAS contribution to university growth both on the Hilltop Campus and the
emerging Capitol Campus;
▪ Strengthening the research-oriented environment among faculty and students in concert
with support for high-impact and innovative teaching;
▪ Providing key leadership in supporting, implementing and extending the university’s existing
racial justice initiatives and priorities;
▪ Guiding the recruitment, retention, support and advancement of a diverse faculty, staff, and
student body;
▪ Ensuring that CAS will craft policies and create programs that promote gender equity;
▪ Nurturing the growth of graduate education and support for graduate students;
▪ Leading the development of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative;
▪ Partnering with the McCourt School of Public Policy, the Earth Commons, and the
McDonough School of Business in joint undergraduate majors;
▪ Partnering in the reform of graduate studies, especially that concerning PhD programs in
CAS;
▪ Collaborating on cross-campus initiatives, such as the Emergent Ethics Initiative, the Racial
Justice Institute, and the Tech and Society Network.

Nominations and Inquiries

Georgetown University has retained the national executive search firm Isaacson Miller to
assist in this search. For more information, or to submit a nomination, application or inquiry click here.

Search Committee for Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Kathleen McNamara, Ph.D. (Chair)
Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Co-Director of the Global Political Economy Project.

Katherine Benton Cohen, Ph.D.
Professor of History

Fr. Mark Bosco, SJ
Vice President, Mission & Ministry Professor of History

Katherine Benton Cohen, Ph.D.
Professor of History

Laurent Bouton, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Economics

Emanuela Del Gado, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physics

Pratik Jacob, C’25
Undergraduate Student

Michael Kessler, J.D.
Managing Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Adjunct Professor, Law Center

Peter Marra
Dean, Earth Commons Institute for the Environment and Sustainability and Laudato Si’ Professor of Biology and the Environment

Abigail Marsh, Ph.D.
Professor, Co-Director, Interdisciplinary PhD Concentration in Cognitive Science

Paul Portner, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Linguistics

Elena Silva, Ph.D.
Professor | Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English

Karolyn Tyson, Ph.D.
Professor | Chair, Department of Sociology

Spencer Waters, PHD’28
Graduate Student

Search Support:

John Isaacson
Isaacson Miller

Berkley Braden
Isaacson Miller

Mindy Cimini
Isaacson Miller

Marie Mattson
Secretary, Georgetown University

Lisa Krim
Senior Advisor to the President for Faculty Relations