We are the small team of Georgetown students that make up The Footnote.
Victoria Korotchenko
Editor-in-Chief
Victoria Korotchenko is a second-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.
Madison Campbell
Editor-in-Chief
Madison Campbell is a second-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.
Catherine La Prairie
Outreach Coordinator
Catherine is a PhD student in history at Georgetown University, where she studies the French Empire in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world, with a particular interest in the people who lived at the edges of French imperial power. When not at school, she can often be found at a theme park, in a haunted house, or listening to showtunes.
Mackenzie Jones
Outreach Coordinator
Mackenzie Jones is a first-year PhD student in the History Department at Georgetown
University. She is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mackenzie holds a BA in
International Relations, with minors in History and German from Louisiana State University
(2022), as well as an MA in Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies from Columbia
University (2025). Her research examines the wartime experiences of Soviet Jews and Soviet
prisoners of war during the Holocaust. Outside of academia, she enjoys watching Youtube,
makeup, and listening to music!
Rafael Jovel
Co-Events Coordinator
Rafael Jovel is a second-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!
I’m a silly guy
Peggy Murray
Co-Events Coordinator
TBA
Patrick Grey
Director of Digital Content
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.
Chelsea Padilla
Director of Digital Content
Chelsea Padilla is a first-year MA student in the Department of History. She is originally from Michigan and studied political science and creative writing at the University of Michigan as an undergraduate. Her research focuses on the intersection of colonialism and education in the Philippines. Outside of school, Chelsea enjoys writing fiction, reading speculative literature, and scouring antique shops.
Isabel Pinnell
Editorial Assistant
Isabel Pinnell is a first-year MA student in the Department of History. She is originally from DC and also went to Georgetown for her undergraduate studies, where she majored in History. She is interested in studying gender and legal/political history in late medieval and early modern Europe, particularly in Britain and Spain. Outside of academia, she loves reading, journaling, and anything autumn-themed!
Gavin Dunsby
Editorial Assistant
Gavin Dunsby is a graduate student in the MAGIC Program. He specializes in the history of nationalism with a focus on self-determination and identity in Europe. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Florida Atlantic University’s Wilkes Honors College in 2024.
Bella Swope
Editorial Assistant
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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.
