Faculty Book Workshops

Book workshops allow SFS faculty members to receive feedback on a draft manuscript that addresses important global challenges. These workshops are generally structured as single-day events hosted at the Mortara Center. Georgetown faculty working on related subjects and local DC-area participants are encouraged to attend these small group gatherings to assist their colleagues.

Pictured: Georgetown Professor Pauliina Patana (center) at her book workshop in April 2024 with Katherine Cramer (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Peter Hall (Harvard University).

2026 Workshops

Professor Jane Komori for Labors of Extraction: The Production of Race and Ecology
Professor Melinda Gonzalez for “¿Me Quedo o me Voy?”- Puerto Rican Displacements in the Wake of PROMESA and Huracán María
Professor Killlian Clarke for a co-authored project with Professor Anne Meng (The University of Virginia), and Professor Jack Paine (Emory University)

2025 Workshops

Professor Halimat Somotan for The Decolonizing City: Popular Politics and the Making of Postcolonial Lagos, Nigeria, 1941-76
Professor Renanah Joyce for Exporting Might and Right: Security Assistance and Liberal International Order

Professor Somotan with some of the participants of the workshop

Stay tuned for the AY 2026-2027 Book Workshop call for applications!