Gervase Staff: Gervase Programs: Learning to Lead

John Glavin, Professor of English and Director of the Gervase Programs, has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1967.  A Victorianist and a playwright, he focuses on issues of adaptation, particularly of earlier work in the nineteenth century and of nineteenth-century texts to the contemporary stage and screen. He teaches courses in writing for the stage and screen.  Within the Gervase Programs he directly oversees the Carroll Fellows Initiative, Georgetown's flagship program for its most academically talented and ambitious undergraduates, and also serves as the University's Fellowhip Secretary.  He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, and B.A. from Georgetown University.

Gervase Office Hours (make appointments through Megan Beck):  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 12:45-2:45pm

Sonia Jacobson has worked on academic matters in the Provost's Office at Georgetown for more than ten years, and likes to think she has been a positive force in enhancing the intellectual life of Georgetown undergraduates.  Her participation was key to the development and acceptance of the current Undergraduate Honor System in 1996, and has served as its director ever since.  With William Cooper, executive vice president (1996-1998), Sonia helped "invent" the Georgetown Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (GUROP) which matches Georgetown's very intelligent and enterprising undergraduates with its equally talented and expert faculty to pursue original research in the creation of knowledge.  An ardent Midwesterner (raised on a farm in eastern South Dakota and in the Chicago area), Sonia holds degrees in classical languages from Carleton College (A.B. 1975) and the University of Chicago (A.M. 1988) where she also worked for ten years prior to moving to Washington DC.  Her husband Bob is a physician, and they have two teenage children.  Sonia's hobbies include running, needlepoint, baking, photography, reading mystery novels, and learning to sing alto.

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Allen J. Gill (Lt. Col US Army Ret.) assumed the position of Director, Georgetown Center for Character, Leadership and Excellence, in September of 2007. He retired as an active duty Army Officer after serving more than 23 years, the last four as the Director of Georgetown's Army ROTC program from 2003 to 2007. Commissioned as Infantry Officer in 1984 after graduating from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism, he later received his MA in English from the College of William and Mary and served as Instructor and Assistant Professor in the Department of English/ENG at the United States Military Academy. His awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star for Valor, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and Meritorious Service Medal. He holds the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Expert Infantryman’s Badge, Ranger Tab, Airborne Wings and the Air Assault Badge.

Office Hours (Email for appointment): Monday-Wednesday 10:30-12:00

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Carolyn Emigh joined the Gervase Programs, a diverse collection of programs dedicated to enhancing intellectual life on the Georgetown University campus, in the fall of 2004.  As the Associate Director of Fellowships, she identifies, recruits and mentors highly motivated and accomplished students who are interested in applying to the most highly competitive national and international fellowships and scholarships, such as the Fulbright, the Marshall, the Rhodes, the Mitchell, the Truman, and the Gates.  She received her BA in English from Wittenberg University in 2003, spent a year as an AmeriCorps volunteer working with the homeless and near-homeless in the Anacostia neighborhood in Washington DC, and is currently pursing her Masters in English Literature at Georgetown with a focus in teaching writing.

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Maryam Mohamed joined the Gervase Programs in July 2006. She advises students in the Carroll Fellows Initiative and assists with Fellowships. Maryam will begin working on a J.D. degree at the Georgetown Law Center in the Fall of 2008. Currently she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown, during which time she studied abroad in Turkey, and served as a Resident Assistant for two years. In her spare time she volunteer teaches a college prep class on Global Affairs, and is attempting to finish War and Peace.

Office Hours (Email for appointment):  Monday 10:30-11:30, Wednesday 1:30-2:30, Thursday 3:30-4:30

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Megan Beck joined the Gervase Programs as Program Administrator in August 2007.  She holds a BA in French from The Ohio State University.  During her time at OSU she studied French language and culture at L'Institute Catholique de Paris.  Megan will begin coursework for a Master of Arts in Culture, Communication and Technology (CCT) this fall.

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Perry Guevara joined the Gervase Programs as the Graduate Assistant to the Honor Council in August of 2007.  He is a Master of Arts degree candidate in the Department of English and holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Spanish from the University of Alabama.  He studied Spanish art and literature at the University of Alcalà de Henares in Spain and has conducted research on Zen and contemporary poetry.

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