On a Friday in Dec. 2010 I made my way over to the Wolfington Hall to have dinner with Fr. James Schall, S.J. There he stood, looking sharper and stronger than ever in spite of a recently healed cancerous...

Fr. James Schall, S.J., is a wonderful Jesuit and good friend. He and I are both political scientists and from the California Province of the Jesuits. Although we might have different political views,...

On a bright Saturday morning, I sat in the Rose Garden above Centro Monseñor Romero at the Jesuit Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador. I looked at the roses, imagining what took place that dreadful...

Watching Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., take his final vows to the Society of Jesus this Saturday morning in Gaston Hall gave me a vision of Georgetown. This vision exemplified everything that I hoped to...

Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J. (COL ’88) professed his final vows to the Society of Jesus in Gaston Hall Saturday. The profession of final vows marks the end of...

The Georgetown University Student Association began recruiting students to serve on an advisory committee to assess the quality of religious life on campus and craft the GUSA Mission and Ministry Report. The...

Georgetown graduate and Ignatian Programs Coordinator Colleen Kerrisk (COL ’10) shared her experience working with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at an informal dinner with a group of 20 seniors and...

Georgetown students love politics. As a professor of government, this is a very good thing for me. It means that my classes are always full, students actually do the reading for my courses — at least...

Thanks to a kind article by Lauren Weber ("Recovering From Jaw Cancer, Schall Will Miss Fall Semester," THE HOYA, Aug. 31, 2010, A1), many know that I am out for the fall semester due to a combination...

A professor who has been many years at a school is often asked by visitors: “Do you notice any difference between current students and those from previous decades?” I always answer that question pretty...

For two days last week, the campus enjoyed a remarkable moment in international and intra-Jesuit relations. Sophia University’s president, vice president and Jesuit chancellor led a delegation of faculty...

I love data. This should come as no surprise to any student who has taken my classes. I tend to pepper my lectures with graphs, charts, maps and dynamic data visualizations. Sometimes I use them to...