Global Engagement

Since 2013, the Global Engagement Faculty Grants have supported over 110 faculty/projects in research and conference travel. See below for a partial list of award recipients in recent rounds of the Global Humanities Faculty Seminar grants, which support on-campus speaker series around issues of culture, identity, narrative, and power that cut across national boundaries.

• "North American Victorian Studies Association 2025: "Aftermaths: Race, Environment, Repair," organized by the Department of English, 2024
  
• "In the Face of War Crimes: Truth-telling, Performance, and the Art of Getting Things Done - Innovating Responses to the Forced Deportation of Ukrainian Children by Russia," organized by the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics and the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, 2023
  
• "The Local Goes Global: Local Cultures as Models for Global Activism," organized by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2023
  
• "Reconsidering Re(construction)," organized by the Department of History, 2023.
• "American Studies Overseas: A Collaboration between U Lisboa and Georgetown University," organized by the Department of English and the MA Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities, 2022
• "Understanding and Including Forced Migrants and Refugees: Responses from the Humanities," organized by the Initiative for Multilingual Studies and the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, 2021
  
• "The Question of Infrastructure in the Making and Unmaking of the Contemporary World," organized by the Department of Anthropology, SFS Culture and Politics Program, Department of Geography, and Department of English, 2020
• "Borders and Their Shadows: A New Play Festival," organized by the Department of Performing Arts, 2019
  
• "Decolonization Now," organized by the Department of English, 2019
• "Seminar in French History, 1500-1700," organized by the Department of History, 2018-2019 academic year
• "Consciousness from the Margins," organized by the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching, and Service, 2018-2019 academic year
• "Theory and Practice: Humanities in the World," organized by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (SFS) and the Georgetown Institute for Global History, spring 2016 semester
• "The Interpretation and Understanding of Political Philosophy Texts," organized by the Tocqueville Forum for Political Understanding (College), spring 2016 semester
• “Worldly Compositions: Humans and Nonhumans and the Making of Global Publics,” organized by The Program in Culture and Politics (SFS), in collaboration with faculty in College, fall 2015 semester
• “Cuba and the United States in Historical Perspective,” organized by the Department of History, 2015-2016 academic year