Faculty Collaborations with the Library

Nicoletta Pireddu

Peer-reviewed, biannual journal

Migrating Minds was established in 2023. It is an ongoing collaboration between Digital Scholarship and Nicoletta Pireddu, Director of Georgetown Humanities Initiative. 
This peer-reviewed, biannual journal is published Open Access on DigitalGeorgetown, and the layout was partially designed by members of the Digital Scholarship team. Migrating Minds offers a unique international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.
The journal is part of the Digital Online Academic Journal database and is hosted on DigitalGeorgetown, which currently has four editions available to read online.
 

Jenny Guardado

Cambridge University Press, 2025

This book is a comparative and historical study of the roots of spatial inequalities in Spanish America, examining how the Spanish colonial administration’s 18th-century practice of office-selling—through which colonial positions were exchanged for money—shaped long-term patterns in local governance, regional disparities, and economic development.
Prof. Jenny Guardado is an assistant professor at the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). Her research drew on Georgetown Library’s Latin American book collection, utilized library-provided ArcGIS for creating maps and spatial statistics, and benefited from the Digital Media Lab’s resources to enhance image quality.
 

Melissa A. Collier
Co-Authors: A.M. Jacoby, V. Foroughirad, E. Patterson, E. Krzyszczyk, M. M. Wallen, M. L. Miketa, C. Karniski, S. Wilkin, J. Mann, & S. B. Bansal

Communications Biology
Vol. 8, Iss. 1, (2025)

This article investigates how social dynamics shape infectious disease risk, using bottlenose dolphins as a model species. Dr. Collier’s co-authors include three Georgetown University Affiliates: Janet Mann, Professor of Biology and Psychology, Shweta Bansal, Professor in the Department of Biology, and Vivienne Foroughirad, Researcher in the Department of Biology.
Dr. Collier is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biology. She and her colleagues relied on the library for comprehensive access to the studies and references essential to the conception, analysis, and interpretation of their research. Through interlibrary loan services and the university’s journal subscriptions—readily available via the library website—they were able to obtain all necessary resources
 

Rebecca Katz, Ciara Weets, and other Georgetown faculty, staff, and student assistants

DigitalGeorgetown, 2020-2025

This DigitalGeorgetown collection is the result of a collaboration between Digital Scholarship, Rebecca Katz, Ciara Weets, assistance from student workers, and other staff to preserve important work created under The Center for Global Health Science & Security. The items in this collection are from websites that helped monitor the impacts of COVID-19 as well as other pandemics. The sites and resources include tools to track public health and public health policies. This data and information remain crucial for current and future scholars.
 

Anita Gonzalez

Black Folkways, 2025

As a part of the Digital Research and Innovation at Georgetown program, Black Folkways worked with the Library and CNDLS to enhance their research with digital methodologies. Black Folkways is an interdisciplinary research project that engages with three communities located along coastal waterways. They use multi-modal methodologies of mapping, oral histories, genealogy and spatial geography to capture histories of African Americans and document their cultural resilience. Students have assisted with collecting data and community members have located sites that capture their lived experiences. 
At each site they explore themes of community building, healing, shared rumors and recipes, religion, and maintenance of family and community legacies.  Each community has a unique heritage, and their research methodology adapts accordingly.
Research Coordinator & Leads: Mia Massimino (GU); Anita (Gonzalez & GU); Laura Sanders- Morris; Innocentia Mhlambi (U of Witwatersrand)
 

Kristen E. Looney

Cornell University Press, 2020

Kristen E. Looney is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Government. In her first book, Professor Looney examines how countries achieve rural development and offers a new framework for understanding East Asia’s political economy—one that challenges the traditional developmental state paradigm. 
Asian Studies Librarian Ding Ye supported Professor Looney’s research by locating data and acquiring key titles.
 

Shenila Khoja-Moolji

University of Minnesota Press, 2024

Shenila Khoja-Moolji is Associate Professor and Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Endowed Chair of Muslim Societies. In this book, Prof. Khoja-Moolji examines American public culture, arguing that Muslim boyhood has been invented as a threat within an ideology that seeks to predict future terrorism, positioning Muslim boyhood as a bridge between actual past attacks and imagined future ones in order to justify preemptive enclosure, surveillance, and punishment.
Prof. Khoja-Moolji received research assistance from Middle Eastern Studies Librarian Ryan Zohar, who assisted in identifying relevant data and other resources within library subscription legal databases and government documents. 
 

Katherine Robsky

Map, 2025

As a part of the Digital Research and Innovation at Georgetown program, Katherine Robsky and her team of student researchers worked with the Library and CNDLS to enhance research with digital methodologies. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly growing in global health. In low-resource settings, AI has the potential to fill gaps by supporting screening, diagnosis, triage, and outbreak detection. However, there hasn’t been a systematic approach to implementing AI in this context, and many projects are done in isolation. Therefore, there is an opportunity to compile uses of AI in global health to share best practices, key challenges, and successes. The team conducted a scoping review to document the existing evidence of applications of AI in global health published in scientific literature, created a website with maps that share findings, and continue gathering data on uses of AI in global health. 
Team: Dr. Katherine Robsky, Saara Bidiwala, Joseph Lee, Jiaqin Wu, Lily Odenwelder

Mustafa Aksakal

Princeton University Press, 2026

Mustafa Aksakal is Associate Professor of History and Nesuhi Ertegun Chair of Modern Turkish Studies. In this new book, Prof. Aksakal examines the ways European imperial ambitions brought about the fall of the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and set the stage for a divided and unstable Middle East.

During his research, Prof. Aksakal collaborated with Middle East Studies Librarian Ryan Zohar and consulted the Rare Books and Manuscripts holdings at the Booth Family Center for Special Collections.
 

Dahlgren Chapel, Georgetown University
October 28, 2024

For this event, Prof. Russell Weismann, Music Faculty and Liturgical Music Director for the Office of Mission and Ministry, required a copy of the 1918 silent film Frate Sole, which depicts the life of St. Francis of Assisi. The only known copy of the film is held by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. Lauinger Library’s Interlibrary Loan Services obtained a copy of the film for the event.
The film was screened in Dahlgren Chapel and accompanied by a live performance from Thierry Escaich, the renowned organist of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
 

Tania Gentic

Duke University Press, 2025

Tania Gentic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. In her new book, Professor Gentic examines the language and soundscape of post-Franco Barcelona to uncover the remnants of a globalized colonial ear, theorizing “echoic memory” to explain how sound circulates across time and space— shaping and contesting modernity, community identity, and democracy.
Prof. Gentic’s research was supported by Georgetown Library’s Spanish and Catalan print and e-book collections, as well as by access to Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) resources and interlibrary loan services.
 

Co-authors: Rachel Barr, Heather Kirkorian, Sarah Coyne, Jenny Radesky

Cambridge University Press, 2024

Rachel Barr is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology. In this new book, Prof. Barr and her co-authors examine the effects of digital media use on young children and propose shifting future research toward the new Dynamic, Relational, Ecological Approach to Media Effects Research (DREAMER) framework to better understand how digital media influences child outcomes.
Library resources were essential to Prof. Barr throughout her research process. She relied on access to key journals and databases, interlibrary loan services, and the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) collections.
 

Erik Wood
Natural Hazards Journal
March 2021

Professor Erik Wood teaches in the Emergency & Disaster Management Program at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies (SCS). His research highlights how landscape architects remain an underutilized resource in U.S. disaster planning and climate mitigation efforts. The study identifies a critical shortfall in collaboration between landscape architects and emergency managers that limits the effectiveness of resilience initiatives. Beyond mapping this disconnect, it offers practical recommendations to strengthen professional partnerships and integrate design-based approaches into emergency management practice.
As part of the project, Erik Wood consulted with Ladislava Khailova, Director of SCS Library Services, to develop an effective research strategy and identify key library-sponsored resources supporting this interdisciplinary approach to climate-related disaster mitigation.
 

Emily Mendenhall

University of California Press, 2026

Dr. Emily Mendenhall is Professor and Director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program in the School of Foreign Service. As a medical anthropologist, her work often addresses the challenges people face at the intersections of culture, health, and politics. Much of her work has explored how people navigate the troubled waters of chronic illness and find strength in people around them. She is also the co-editor of recently released, Savoring Care: Flourishing with Diabetes Across Cultures (2025). 
Professor Mendenhall made extensive use of Lauinger Library's interlibrary loan services and research databases for her research. She also co-curated the Memorializing COVID-19: Five Years On exhibition which was on display in the Library in Spring 2025. 

Co-edited by Adam Rothman and 
Elsa Barraza Mendoza

Georgetown University Press, 2021

Facing Georgetown's History is a collection of primary sources, essays by scholars, and articles by journalists that document Georgetown's history of slavery and the school's recent efforts to come to terms with that past. This reader provides a powerful example of the research, teaching, and thoughtful discussion underway at Georgetown and other universities studying slavery.
Adam Rothman is a Professor in the History Department, Director of Georgetown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies, and curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive.
Elsa Barraza Mendoza (G ‘21) is associate curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive.  She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Middlebury College.
The editors published fifteen documents, selected from their research of the Maryland Province Archives and University Archives, that provide insight into Jesuit enslavement with guidance for instructors who hope to use them in their classes.
 

Josiah Osgood

Basic Books, 2025

Dr. Josiah Osgood is a professor of classics and historian of Rome who researches the fall of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
In Lawless Republic, Professor Osgood narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero. He vividly resurrects the spectacle of the courts in the time of Cicero and Caesar, showing how politics trumped the rule of law and sealed the fate of Rome.
Professor Osgood made extensive use of Lauinger Library’s interlibrary loan services for his research.
 

David J. Collins, S.J.

Georgetown University Press, 2023

Father Collins is the chair of the History Department and was the chair of the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation. Collins explores the history of the Jesuits in the United States by emphasizing the growth of their missionary activities since 1634. 
The book is organized into five distinct periods that reflect the relationship of the United States to the global order: the settlement of colonial North America, the Suppression of the Society of Jesus preceding the American Revolution, the global migration during the nineteenth century, the entrenchment of Jesuit educational institutions and international missionary activity of the early twentieth century, and the impact of Vatican II and the social movements of the late twentieth century.

Father Collins used the Jesuit collections held by the Booth Family Center for Special Collections as major sources, especially the Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, the John Brosnan, S.J. Photography Collection, and the John Courtney Murray, S.J., Collection.
 

Stephanie J. Rufino

Georgetown University Press, 2025

Professor Stephanie J. Rufino taught in Georgetown University’s Art History Department from 2015 to 2024. This book provides a close look at over fifty campus buildings and their history from Georgetown's founding in 1789 through today.

Illustrations accompanying the text include historical images from the University Archives, vibrant current photographs, and multiple maps covering all campuses.

Students in the Department of Art and Art History seminar Georgetown University: Architecture & History explored records in the University Archives and contributed to the research for a select sample of entries.
 

Carlos Simon

Chamber Music, 2021

Carlos Simon, an assistant professor in the Department of Performing Arts, and frequently writes for the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera.

Using the musical structure of a liturgical mass, Requiem for the Enslaved artistically explores the sacred and historical ideology of the sale of those enslaved by Jesuits by infusing the music of the Catholic Church and African American Spirituals into an original composition. The piece was commissioned by Georgetown University with support from the President’s Office, the Committee for Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation, and the Department of Performing Arts. It debuted at the Library of Congress on Nov. 5, 2021. One year later, it was nominated for a Grammy.

Simon’s work was inspired by his visits to the Booth Family Center for Special Collections, where he examined documents that listed the individuals who became part of the sale and later met GU272+ descendants at the site of their ancestors’ enslavement in Maringouin, Louisiana.

Monica Sanders

Edward Elgar Publishing

Monica Sanders is faculty at the Georgetown Law Center and the Earth Commons at Georgetown University. This teaching guide, Creating Inclusive and Engaging Online Courses, addresses the challenges of effective online teaching, offering practical strategies for accessibility, diversity, and mobile learning. The book provides step-by-step guidance for equitable and engaging course design, along with resources on pedagogy, law, and copyright. 
Contributing author Ladislava Khailova, Director of SCS Library Services, wrote the chapter “Developing and Incorporating Impactful Library Research Guides for Online and Hybrid Learners,” which highlights how tailored research guides can enhance digital learning, promote inclusion, and support student success in virtual environments.