ACADEMICS

Faculty

POLITICAL SCIENCE FACULTY

Michael J. Collins: Professor of English, Georgetown University

Michael Collins began his tenure at Georgetown University in August, 1981, as Dean of the School for Summer and Continuing Education. As Dean, Dr. Collins was responsible for administering the graduate and undergraduate courses offered each summer at Georgetown and at locations abroad. He also oversaw a variety of continuing education courses and programs throughout the year, including the graduate and undergraduate degree programs in liberal studies, the Alumni College, and a variety of non-credit courses and certificate programs for the personal and professional development of adults. He was also responsible for the various academic and residential programs at Villa Le Balze, Georgetown's study center in Fiesole, Italy, and, for several years, the Office of International Programs.

In 2003, Dr. Collins was appointed Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and Dean Emeritus. He teaches courses on such subjects such as Shakespeare, the American Idea, and Modern British Theater in Georgetown College and the Liberal Studies Program, and he continues his responsibilities for the Villa Le Balze. He lectures frequently in American studies and on Shakespeare in performance, and he co-directs the annual alumni study tour to Florence and Assisi. He is on the faculty of the Bryce Harlow Institute of Business and Government Affairs and the International Institute for Political and Economic Systems in Greece. He has published many articles on Shakespeare, modern poetry, and teaching and has edited two collections of essays: Text and Teaching (with Francis J. Ambrosio) and Shakespeare’s Sweet Thunder: Essays on the EarlyComedies. Collins earned a Ph.D. (1973) and M.A. (1964) from New York University and a B.S. degree from Fordham College (1963). He served as a Captain in the United States Army from 1965 to 1968.

Dr. Francis J. Ambrosio: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

Francis J. Ambrosio was born in New York City in 1949. He graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan and received a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy summa cum laude in cursu honoris from Fordham University, where he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After studies in Italian language and literature in Florence, Italy, he completed his doctoral degree at Fordham University in 1981 with a specialization in contemporary European Philosophy. In 1976, he was appointed Assistant to the President at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and in 1979 became Director of Planning there. Since 1981, he has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University where he currently holds the rank of Associate Professor.

Dr. Ambrosio has been published widely in scholarly journals writing on hermeneutics, especially the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer. In addition, he is the editor of two books: Text and Teaching (with Michael J. Collins) and The Question of Christian Philosophy Today (2000). Since 1987, he has annually conducted study programs for Georgetown at Villa Le Balze, the University’s campus in Fiesole, Italy, focusing on the development of the Florentin Renaissance. He also served at Villa Le Balze as Director of Studies for Georgetown’s Junior Year Abroad Program in 1990-1991. He recently published a study of the painting of Fra Angelico, entitled Fra Angelico at San Marco: The Place of Art. Dr. Ambrosio currently teaches courses at Georgetown on Plato, Existentialism, Dante, and Christian Philosophy.

HISTORY FACULTY

Dr. Anthony Sullivan, Associate, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The University of Michigan; Senior Fellow, The Fund for American Studies

Dr. Sullivan is the author of two books dealing respectively with the Franco-Algerian relations in the 19th century and Palenstinian universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Dr. Sullivan has written some 80 book chapters, journal articles and academic reviews focusing on Arab and Islamic history and relations between the West and the Muslim world. He has lectured at some seventy universities and public policy institutes in the United States and overseas. from 1962-1967, Dr. Sullivan served as Instructor in History at International College in Beirut, Lebanon. He has also served as a Freshmen-Sophomore Counselor at the University of Michigan (1968-1969) and Lecturer in history at Hillsdale College, Michigan (1977-1978). Since 1988, Dr. Sullivan has held appointment as Associate, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The University of Michigan.

From 1970-2000, Dr Sullivan was associated with the Earhart Foundation, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He served variously as Assistant to the Program Officer (1970-1971), Program Officer (1971-1978), Corporate Secretary and Program Officer (1978-1990) and Corporate Secretary and Director of Program (1991-2000). The Earhart Foundation makes grants for advanced scholarship (pre and post doctoral) in the related disciplines of international affairs, political science, economics, and history as well as for research in selected fields in the humanities.

Dr. Sullivan received his B.A. degree from Yale University, his M.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in European and Middle Eastern history from the University of Michigan. He speaks both French and Arabic and travels frequently to Europe and the Middle East.

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT FACULTY

Dr. Craig Zelizer, Acting Director of the Masters in Conflict Resolution Program, Georgetown University


Dr. Craig Zelizer is Acting Director of the MA in Conflict Resolution Program in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His areas of expertise include working with youth from violent conflict regions, civil society development and capacity building in transitional societies, program evaluation and design, working on conflict sensitivity and mainstreaming across development sectors, exploring the connection between trauma and conflict, the role of the private sector in peacebuilding, and arts and peacebuilding.  He has worked extensively throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America with diverse groups including civil society members, educators, youth, and government officials. To date he has worked in over 14 countries, helped train hundreds of individuals in conflict resolution processes and facilitated several long-term dialogue processes.  He has published several articles and reports including in the journals Peace and Conflict Studies, The African Peace and Conflict Journal and is currently co-editing a book about evaluation in the field.

He was one of the co-founders and a senior partner in the Alliance for Conflict Transformation, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to building peace through innovative research and practice. In addition to his work with ACT, he has worked for several international organizations including the International Research & Exchanges Board, the United States Institute of Peace, and received a number of fellowships and awards, including serving as a Fulbright Junior Scholar in Hungary for two years and as a National Security Education Program Fellow in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

ECONOMICS FACULTY

Andrew P. Morriss: H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business at the University of Illinois

Andrew is also a Research Fellow of the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law, a Senior Fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana; a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; and a regular visiting professor at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, in Guatemala.

He received his A.B. degree from Princeton University, his J.D. and a masters degree in public affairs from The University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. (Economics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is the author or coauthor of more than forty book chapters and scholarly articles, including Signaling and Precedent in Federal District Court Opinions (with Michael Heise and Gregory Sisk) 13 Supreme Court Economic Review 63-98 (2005); Defining What to Regulate: Silica & the Problem of Regulatory Categorization (with Susan E. Dudley), Administrative Law Review (forthcoming 2006); and The Public-Private Security Partnership: Counterterrorism Considerations for Employers in a Post-9/11 World, in Work Place Privacy Here and Abroad: Proceedings of the New York University 58th Annual Conference on Labor (Kluwer 2006). He is the co-editor of Cross-Border Human Resources, Labor and Employment Issues: Proceedings of the New York University 54 th Annual Conference on Labor (Samuel Estreicher and Andrew Morriss, eds.) (Kluwer 2004); Property Stories (editor, with Gerald Korngold) (Foundation Press, 2004); and The Common Law and the Environment ( Roger Meiners and Andrew Morriss, eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). He shares his home in Ohio with his wife, two daughters, eight cats, one dog, and six horses.

Program Staff

Michelle Jeffress: Director of International Programs, The Fund for American Studies

Michelle Jeffress is originally from Independence, Missouri. She earned her B.A., summa cum laude, in political science, with minors in history and French, from Missouri State University. She completed her M.A. in international economics and European studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS). She completed her first year of graduate studies at the SAIS Bologna Center in Italy. During her undergraduate and graduate studies, she completed a foreign policy internship in the office of Senator John Ashcroft as well as a print media internship with Inside Report , Evans & Novak. She also worked as a political researcher for a member of the government in the British Parliament in London, United Kingdom. Michelle attended the Institute on Political Journalism in 1995, and completed her internship with the Military District of Washington as a staff reporter. The following year she participated in the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems in Prague. In 1997 she served as a program assistant for TFAS International Programs, and in 1998 she joined the TFAS staff. Michelle is the international program director and is responsible for all five international programs and their operations at the International Programs division of The Fund for American Studies.