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Graduating MAGIC Students Reflect on their Experiences

As the year comes to a close, The Footnote invited graduating MAGIC students to reflect on their academic and personal journeys at Georgetown. Hear from four of them below! Having made it to the finish line, what advice would you give to incoming students? Maddie Densmore: Everybody gets imposter syndrome at some point here. Don’t let it get to you; everyone grows so much during … Continue reading Graduating MAGIC Students Reflect on their Experiences

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An Oral History of a Native Son: The Elaine Massacre and its Living Memory

Patrick Grey On September 30, 1919, Black sharecroppers throughout Phillips County, Arkansas convened in a church in the town of Elaine to discuss fairer cotton prices for the fall sale and plan how to increase Black land ownership among Black farmers. Armed guards stood just outside of the church while white police officers were in a car parked nearby. Not long after the meeting began, … Continue reading An Oral History of a Native Son: The Elaine Massacre and its Living Memory

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Tell Us About Your Summer! Interviews with PhD and MAGIC Students about their Summer Research Experiences

Over the past few weeks, Rosie Click and Sareena Dubey interviewed Georgetown History graduate students about their summer experiences. The first interview about summer teaching experiences was published on September 5th, and the second interview about summer language programs was published last week. This interview features Georgetown History PhD student J. Alexander Killion and MAGIC students Jason Roeder and Tanushree Bhatia, who talked to us … Continue reading Tell Us About Your Summer! Interviews with PhD and MAGIC Students about their Summer Research Experiences

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Tell Us About Your Summer! Interviews with PhD and MAGIC Students about their Summer Language Programs

Over the past few weeks, Rosie Click and Sareena Dubey interviewed Georgetown History graduate students about their summer experiences. The first interview about summer teaching experiences was published last week. The next two Footnote posts will feature more interviews about summer experiences in language learning and research. This interview features Georgetown History PhD students Ethan Weisbaum and Ethan Barkalow, and MAGIC student Oscar Yu, who talked … Continue reading Tell Us About Your Summer! Interviews with PhD and MAGIC Students about their Summer Language Programs

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Tell Us About Your Summer! Interviews with PhD and MAGIC Students about their Summer Teaching Experiences

Over the past few weeks, Rosie Click and Sareena Dubey interviewed three students about their summer experiences. The next three Footnote posts will feature those interviews; the first about teaching, the second about language learning, and the third about research. This interview features Georgetown History PhD students JoĂŁo Gabriel Rabello SodrĂ© and Erica Lally, and MAGIC student Mallory Page, who talked to us about teaching … Continue reading Tell Us About Your Summer! Interviews with PhD and MAGIC Students about their Summer Teaching Experiences

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Interview with Sarah-Louise Miller on Writing about Women in Wartime and Intelligence

This week, The Footnote interviewed Dr. Sarah-Louise Miller, an experienced historian, author and media consultant, specializing in Second World War history. She is currently based at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and is a tutor at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London. She has recently published The Women Behind the Few; The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and British Intelligence During the Second … Continue reading Interview with Sarah-Louise Miller on Writing about Women in Wartime and Intelligence

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Interview with Dr. John Lisle on his new book, The Dirty Tricks Department

This week, The Footnote interviewed Dr. John Lisle, a historian of Science and the American Intelligence Community from Azle, Texas. He earned a PhD in history from the University of Texas, where he teaches classes on the history of science. His first book, The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare, sheds light on the scientists … Continue reading Interview with Dr. John Lisle on his new book, The Dirty Tricks Department

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Interview with Dr. Rory Cormac on his new book, How to Stage a Coup

This week, The Footnote interviewed renowned author, professor, and Intelligence historian Rory Cormac about his newest book: How To Stage A Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft. The book systematically exposes the gray zone in our post-truth era of implausible deniability and ambiguous warfare. Cormac flawlessly integrates discussions of recent events with historic case studies to provide thoughtful insights on … Continue reading Interview with Dr. Rory Cormac on his new book, How to Stage a Coup

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A Conversation with Michael Kazin

Mariam Aiyad Michael Kazin is a historian of US History, writer, and professor in the History Department at Georgetown University. Journalism has always been a key factor in Michael Kazin’s life. Throughout middle school, high school, and college, Kazin wrote and edited for his school newspaper. Later in his early career, he wrote for Leftist underground newspapers. As a member of the Democratic Socialists of … Continue reading A Conversation with Michael Kazin

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A Conversation on Equity, Inclusion, and History at Georgetown University: PART II – Doing Diversity Work at Georgetown

Casey Donahue At the end of March, I spoke with leaders from the diversity and equity initiatives in Georgetown’s History and Foreign Service departments. The goal of the discussion was to learn how these graduate students understand diversity work in the context of their academic discipline, and how they leverage the study of history in their respective approaches. Joining me from the School of Foreign … Continue reading A Conversation on Equity, Inclusion, and History at Georgetown University: PART II – Doing Diversity Work at Georgetown

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