All Posts: Alumni News
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- Alumni News
- Spring 2026
Alumni News
The German Department is happy and thankful to receive two endowments from alumni and their families. Tanya Boland, née Konarkowski, (C’ 96) and her family endowed the Schröder…
May 14, 2026
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- Fall 2025
Alumni News
Tom Callahan (SFS, 1965) shared the following remembrance of Georg von Ihering, instructor of German at Georgetown University. My German teacher at Georgetown was Georg von…
December 9, 2025
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College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Gain Firsthand Experience in Germany’s Parliament
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August 26, 2025
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- Spring 2025
Alumni News
Congratulations go to Dr. Aleksandra Starcevic (PhD, 2021) who has received the 2025 Georgia German Professor of the Year award. Aleksandra teaches at Kennesaw State University.…
May 14, 2025
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Congratulations to Dr. Aleksandra Starcevic!
Congratulations go to Dr. Aleksandra Starcevic (Ph.D., G’21) who has received the 2025 Georgia German Professor of the Year award from the American Association of Teachers of…
January 22, 2025
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Congratulations to Dr. Josh Seale!
Dr. Josh Seale (Ph.D., G’20) will leave his post as a Public Diplomacy Officer at the Austrian Embassy in order to become the new Operations Director of the German Studies…
January 3, 2025
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- Fall 2024
Alumni News
Two of our recent graduates, Helen Poe (CAS, ‘22) and Soma Arens (CAS, ‘24), have been successful in securing International Parliamentary Scholarships (IPS) for 2025. The IPS is…
December 17, 2024
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- Spring 2024
Alumni News
Andrew Lee (CAS 2018) will join the DC law firm Greenberg Traurig with a specialization in space law in July of this year. Andrea Bryant (PhD, 2021) has been named Director of…
May 18, 2024
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Dr. Julia Goetze (PhD, 2018) Receives ACTFL Research Priorities Grant
German Department alumna Dr. Julia Goetze (PhD, 2018) has received an ACTFL Research Priorities grant, awarded to support empirical research on six priority areas that are…
October 13, 2023
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- Undergraduate Students
Congratulations to Desmond Allen Ferrell, SFS’18, recipient of a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
When I arrived at Georgetown in the fall of 2014, I only intended to take enough German courses to satisfy the SFS language proficiency requirement. However, life had other plans…
December 6, 2021