Each year, deans, departments, and similar units nominate deserving colleagues as Provost Distinguished Associate Professors. A faculty committee of university professors, endowed chair holders (chaired by Reena Aggarwal, Vice Provost for Faculty) reviewed the applicants. This year, competition was particularly intense, with many more nominations than previous years.
Georgetown uses the designation to honor Associate Professors who are performing at extraordinary high levels. These designations are term-limited with a maximum duration of five years, or until promotion to full professor. As indicated below, their work exemplifies what makes Georgetown strong – faculty thoroughly engaged in pushing the envelope of knowledge in their field, and transmitting their passion for such work to their students and the general public.
Vishal Agrawal is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management in the McDonough School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Agrawal’s research interests include sustainable operations, new product development and supply chain management. His research focuses on managerial challenges at the interface of business and the environment. He is also interested in the effect of consumer behavior on operations and new product development strategies. Dr. Agrawal’s research has appeared in leading journals such as Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and has received several awards including the Management Science Best Paper in Operations Management Award (2015), Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability (2016), and the INFORMS ENRE Young Researcher Award (runner up 2014). He serves as an associate editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and as a senior editor for Production and Operations Management.
Laia Balcells is an Associate Professor in the Government department of Georgetown College. She is a political scientist specializing in the study of political violence as well as nationalism and ethnic conflict. She earned her PhD from Yale University in 2010 and came to Georgetown from Duke. Dr. Balcells’ book, Rivalry and Revenge: The Politics of Violence during Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2017), deals with the determinants of violence against civilians in civil war, and explores micro-level variation in the Spanish Civil War and Côte d’Ivoire. Her more recent work examines preferences for secessionism and their relationship with redistribution and identity-related factors. She has also recently explored post-war low-intensity violence (in Northern Ireland), wartime displacement (in Colombia and Spain), and cross-national variation in civil war warfare and its implications on conflict duration, termination and severity.
Shweta Bansal is an Associate Professor of Biology in Georgetown College. She completed a RAPIDD postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University and the Fogarty International Center at NIH. She completed her Ph.D. in 2008 in network modeling and infectious disease ecology at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Bansal is an interdisciplinary mathematical biologist, and her research is focused on the development of data-driven mathematical models for the prevention and containment of human and animal infectious diseases using tools from network science, statistical physics, computer physics, computer science and statistics. Dr. Bansal’s Lab focuses on the interactions that facilitate infectious disease transmission between hosts. It seeks to understand how social behavior and population structure shape infectious disease transmission, and how knowledge of such processes can improve disease surveillance and control.
Leticia Bode is an Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology master’s program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work lies at the intersection of communication, technology, and political behavior, emphasizing the role communication and information technologies may play in the acquisition and use of political information. Her work examines the effects of incidental exposure to political information on social media, effects of exposure to political comedy, use of social media by political elites, selective exposure and political engagement in new media, and the changing nature of political socialization given the modern media environment. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media and Society, Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Information, Communication, and Society, among others. Dr. Bode also sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Social Media + Society.
Jeremy Fineman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science of Georgetown College. He joined the Georgetown community in 2011, before which he was a Computing Innovation Fellow at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Fineman studies algorithm design and analysis, focusing on parallel algorithms, scheduling, and memory-efficient or large-data algorithms. He is also interested in classic (sequential) algorithms and data structures. He has published prolifically and has emerged as a leader among his peers. His work is well-recognized by his peers, and one of Dr. Fineman’s papers received a Best Paper award from the 2014 European Symposium on Algorithms.
Emily Mendenhall is an Associate Professor of Global Health in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is a medical anthropologist who writes about how social trauma, poverty, and social exclusion become embodied in chronic mental and physical illness. Dr. Mendenhall received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University and MPH from the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University. Prof Mendenhall’s most recent project is a book forthcoming with Cornell University Press (2019), Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements of Poverty, Trauma, and HIV. Rethinking Diabetes considers how ”global” and ”local” factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place. She is also the author of Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women (Routledge, 2012). In 2017, Dr. Mendenhall was awarded the George Foster Award for Practicing Medical Anthropology by the Society for Medical Anthropology.
Please join me in congratulating these wonderful Georgetown colleagues for their accomplishments and their ongoing contributions to our university.
bed rise of the “gig” economy, many workers are not really employees of any organization. They are contractors exchanging their labor for money, with no legal obligations to work on any particular schedule and, in return, little ongoing commitment of the organization toward them.
The effects of exposure to politics and comedy, the use of media platforms by the political elites as well as selective exposure and political involvement in the new media, as well as the changing nature of political socialization in the current media landscape.
The effects of exposure to politics and comedy, the use of media platforms by the political elites as well as selective exposure and political involvement in the new media, as well as the changing nature of political socialization in the current media landscape.
The 20th century was typical for young people to join a workplace after they had completed their education to be able to get a low-level job and to receive formal education from the business in the course of time, and then to progress in the ranks and then to conclude their career at the top professional level. Contrary to this culture in the present, many organizations expect employees to work very little time before leaving for a different company. The effects of exposure to politics and comedy, the use of media platforms by the political elites as well as selective exposure and political involvement in the new media, as well as the changing nature of political socialization in the current media landscape.
These competitions are great to help personnel but should not be a burden to the nations to witness more advancement.
Her work examines the effects of incidental exposure to political information on social media, effects of exposure to political comedy, use of social media by political elites, selective exposure and political engagement in new media, and the changing nature of political socialization given the modern media environment.
In reading about the private sector job market, it’s notable how much has changed. In the 20th century, it was common for a young person to enter a work organization after completing their education, to enter a relatively low-level job, to receive formal training from the company over time, to advance through the ranks, and eventually to end one’s career at the highest level of their careers. In contrast to that culture, many organizations today assume that employees will spend relatively short amounts of time before leaving for another organization. Indeed, with the rise of the “gig” economy, many workers are not really employees of any organization. They are contractors exchanging their labor for money, with no legal obligations to work on any particular schedule and, in return, little ongoing commitment of the organization toward them.
These competitions are always good and make the staff and the company stronger
good post. I am the manager of a facility in Iran
Congrats to all
These competitions are always great for the progress of the staff and should be left to all the countries to see more progress.
I am the manager of a facility in Iran. I plan to launch competitions like this article in my own company to promote my company’s employees.
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These competitions are always great for the progress of the staff and should be left to all the countries to see more progress.
Congrats to all