We are the small team of Georgetown students that make up The Footnote.
Shawn Liu
Co Editor-in-Chief
Shawn Liu (MAGIC/MSFS) graduated from Northwestern University in Fall 2022 with a major in History and Cognitive Science. Currently enrolled in the MA/MSFS dual degree program at Georgetown, he is interested in Chinese environmental history as well as Sino-American competition and collaboration, with a specific focus on their policies regarding the polar regions. He hopes to enter a doctoral program or enter the public sector working in international development after completing his dual degree at Georgetown. Outside of his career interests, he also enjoys listening to (and occasionally dancing to) classic rock, running, and traveling with his friends!
Patrick Grey
Co Editor-in-Chief
Patrick Grey is a second-year PhD student in the Department of History at Georgetown University. Before arriving in Washington, DC, he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida, majoring in History, Spanish, and Latin American Studies. His research centers on the histories of the African diaspora in the Americas, particularly those of fugitivity, marronage, and resistance to enslavement in the Atlantic world. He welcomes inquiries from writers interested in engaging with oral histories and the digital humanities. Outside of his studies, he enjoys cooking Peruvian food as well as writing fiction about his communities in Lima and Miami.
Catherine La Prairie
Social Media Director
Catherine La Prairie is a second-year MA student from Ottawa, Canada. She is interested in national, cultural, and linguistic identities across the French Empire in North America. Outside of school, she loves haunted houses, low-budget movie musicals, and hiking.
Rafael Jovel
Co-Events Coordinator
Rafael Jovel is a first-year PhD student in the Department of History at Georgetown University. He is originally from New York City and completed his undergraduate degree at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, majoring in History and minoring in Math. He is interested in 20th century US history, especially the ways in which US empire shapes Latinx community in the US and abroad and how cultural communities form around points of imperial intervention. Outside of academics, he loves music and cooking for others!
Isabella Terrizzano
Co-Events Coordinator
Isabella is a second-year MA student in the Department of History. She is originally from the Bay Area and attended UCLA for her undergraduate studies. Isabella is interested in 20th-century gendered Fascism in the Italian-American diaspora. Her research interests brought her to Rome this past summer to practice her Italian language skills. When she is not studying, Isabella loves to knit, scrapbook, and cook new recipes!
Anna Maggi
Director of Digital Content
Anna Maggi is a second-year MA student in the Department of History at Georgetown. She is originally from Chicago and graduated from UC Davis in 2024, majoring in History and minoring in Art History. At Georgetown, she studies failed presidential assassins in the mid-twentieth century United States. Outside of school, she enjoys The Simpsons, Diet Coke, and 80s music.
Victoria Korotchenko
Editorial Assistant
Victoria Korotchenko is a first-year PhD student in the Department of History. Originally from California, she attended UC Santa Barbara for her BA in English, History, and Slavic Studies, but she also spent a year in Paris while completing her MA in History and Literature through Columbia University. At Georgetown, she is interested in studying the provenance of Russian art and cultural objects in Western European museums and their curatorial/institutional history. Outside of academia, Victoria has spent the past year interning with the National Park Service publications team (if you’ve read a park brochure recently, she’s probably edited it). In her free time, she loves reading, hiking, and exploring the markets of DC.
Rosie Click
Editorial Assistant
Rosie Click is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the History Department at Georgetown University. She received an MA in Latin American Studies from Tulane University in May 2022. Her work explores teaching and international students throughout the overseas US empire. She is also interested in public history, museum studies, and academic editing. Rosie served as The Footnote‘s co Editor-in-Chief from Fall 2023-Spring 2025.
Madison Campbell
Editorial Assistant
Madison Campbell is a first-year MAGIC student originally from the Chicago suburbs. Before coming to Georgetown, she completed her undergraduate studies at Northeastern University, majoring in History and minoring in German and Cultural Anthropology. Her research interests center on the rise of fascism in interwar Austria and the post-war Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). Outside of the History Department, she enjoys baking, bar trivia, and crying over her Chicago sports teams.
Casey Donahue
The Footnote‘s Founder
Casey holds masters degrees in History and Foreign Service from Georgetown, where he studied peace processes, youth history education, and sociopolitical movements in the Atlantic and Middle Eastern spaces. Casey is a former classroom teacher, political risk analyst, and elementary school tutor. He hopes to build a career as a public historian, educator, and peacebuilder.
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