Faculty Exchange
Located in two important capital cities with vastly different demographics and world views, the Washington, DC, and Doha campuses benefit from intellectual exchange between faculty and administrators.
Pedagogy Development and Best-Practice Sharing
Whether they are collecting case studies from the global south, sharing pedagogy innovations, or discussing AI use in the classroom, a lively cross-campus knowledge exchange helps ground faculty in the ever-evolving global landscape of value-based education today.
Cross-Campus Collaboration Excellence
Sonneborn Chairs Rogaia Abusharaf, Ananya Chakravarti and Cóilín Parsons have pioneered cross campus work by hosting a student research conference, and designing and teaching a two-semester colloquium on the Indian Ocean World, which included a course trip to India.
GU-Q Doctoral Fellows
This program invites PhD students in their final year at Georgetown University to teach, finish their research, and benefit from faculty mentorship in Qatar.
Doctoral Fellow João Gabriel Rabello Sodré’s course on Rio de Janeiro
Semester-long Teaching
Several faculty have spent a semester or a year at the Doha campus. Faculty interested in a visiting appointment should contact Brendan Hill, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs.
Fr. Ryan Maher, S.J.
Father Ryan Maher, SJ, EdD, spent two years in Qatar from 2005-2007 as a founding faculty member at Georgetown’s campus in Doha. Having served as an academic dean in both the School of Foreign Service and the College of Arts and Sciences, he returned to Doha in 2025 to spend a year teaching and sharing the Jesuit values at the heart of a Georgetown education.
Short-term Visitors
From delivering one-credit courses, to consulting on programs and offering lectures and workshops, faculty exchange programs ensure program, pedagogy, and research synergies between campuses.
I had a wonderful time visiting GU-Q. The students I met were all highly engaged, and the faculty were very welcoming and generous with their time.”
—Kyle Shernuk, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Events and Research
Shared research and collaborative conferences hosted both in Qatar and in Washington, DC, shed light on some of the most pressing issues of our day.