WASHINGTON — Georgetown University professors offer their issue expertise to journalists seeking interviews on a variety of subjects related to Women’s History Month.
To request to schedule an interview, please contact Georgetown’s Office of Communications at media@georgetown.edu.
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Catherine Tinsley, raffini professor of management at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and faculty director of the Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Institute
- Areas of Expertise: gender intelligent leadership, gender dynamics in the workplace, conflict resolution, workforce engagement and how to structure for gender parity
- Worked in partnership with the U.S. State Department and the Council of Women World Leaders to convene the first-ever worldwide meeting of the Ministers of Women’s Affairs
- Quoted in US News and World Report, “To Succeed in Leadership Roles, Women Must Learn to Fail Forward” and Harvard Business Review, “What Most People Get Wrong About Men and Women”
- Open to: TV, Print, Radio
Cecilia Van Hollen, teaching professor in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service
- Areas of expertise: social and cultural dimensions of health, feminism and gender studies, social inequality and power and the intersections of class, caste and gender of reproductive health
- Recent Writing: 2022 University of California Press, “Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India” and 2013 Stanford University Press “Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in IndiaBirth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India”
- Received fellowships for her research from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Fulbright Program, the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars
- Open to: Print
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, associate professor of english
- Areas of expertise: african-american and african diaspora literature, LGBTQ literature and culture, black feminism, creative writing, body positivity and literary cultures
- Authored New York Times Editors Choice, “Big Girl”, “Blue Talk and Love” and “The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora”.
- Writing published in New York Magazine’s The Cut, Feminist Studies, Black Futures, Teaching Black, American Quarterly, College Literature, Palimpsest: Journal of Women, Gender and the Black International, Public Books, Ebony.com, TheRoot.com, BET.com, Ms. Magazine Online and more
- Open to: TV, Print, Radio
Nadia Brown, professor of government and chair of the Georgetown Women and Gender Studies Program
- Areas of expertise: intersectionality of race and gender, political behavior, representation, race and ethnicity politics and gender politics
- Published 2023 Routledge Press “Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics, 2nd Edition” and 2021 Oxford University Press, “Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites”
- A member of the #MeTooPoliSci Collective where she spearheads efforts to stop sexual harassment in the discipline
- Open to: TV, Print, Radio
Tricia Hoefling, assistant teaching professor of women’s and gender studies
- Areas of expertise: gender and the law, constitutional law, reproductive heatlhcare, reproductive rights and social and economic access to reproductive health
- Serves on the board of The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, Whole Woman’s Health Alliance and the Emily Couric Leadership Foundation
- Previously worked with the Whole Woman’s Health Alliance to open two nonprofit reproductive health clinics
- Open to: TV, Print, Radio
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