Meet Our Deans

Georgetown College

Dean Chester L. Gillis

Gillis is a professor in the theology department, and the director of the Program on the Church and Inter-religious Dialogue in the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs. He is an expert on the U.S. Catholic Church, the history of Catholicism, interfaith dialogue and religious pluralism. Gillis' research interests include comparative religion and contemporary Roman Catholicism. He is the author of numerous books and co-editor of the Columbia University series Religion and Politics. He is currently working on a new edition of his Roman Catholicism in America and a book on inter-religious marriage. Learn more

Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Dean Carol Lancaster

Lancaster, the first Georgetown alumna (F '64) to head the School of Foreign Service, is a professor of politics in SFS with a joint appointment in the government department. She has published numerous books and articles on the politics of foreign aid, the politics of development and development in Africa. Lancaster was the deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1993 to 1996 and has consulted for the United Nations, the World Bank and numerous other organizations. Learn more

Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business

Dean George Daly

Under George Daly’s leadership, the school of business has grown the size of its faculty; provided more opportunities for faculty research; implemented the MBA Evening Program and the Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA; increased the visibility of the school; strengthened ties with the regional business community; and opened the $82.5 million Rafik B. Hariri Building. Daly previously has been a professor and dean at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the University of Iowa’s College of Business Administration. He also has held senior posts in the White House, the Institute for Defense Analyses and as a consultant to the National Football League. Learn more

School of Nursing & Health Studies

Interim Dean Julie DeLoia

DeLoia has been a member of the NHS community since August 2007, serving as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and an associate professor in the Department of Human Science.  Before Georgetown, she was a tenured associate professor, a master educator and an academic leader at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. An expert in cancer genetics, she was instrumental in founding the University of Pittsburgh’s Ovarian Cancer Center and served as the center’s director of research. She has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, served as principal investigator on two R01 grants of the National Institutes of Health, and is a co-inventor on a patent for “Gene copy number profiling.” Learn more

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Dean Timothy A. Barbari

Barbari, who is also the associate provost for research (Main Campus) and a professor of Physics, has had an extensive career in higher education. Prior to Georgetown, he was a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Maryland, serving as department chair for five years. Before his appointment at Maryland, Barbari was a professor of chemical engineering at Johns Hopkins University and for two years, the associate dean for academic affairs in its engineering school. His areas of research include the development of membranes, biomaterials and surfaces for use in molecular separations, sensors and drug delivery. Learn more

School of Medicine

Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine Howard Federoff, M.D., Ph.D.

Federoff, who also is executive vice president of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) is responsible for advancing the center’s educational and research missions and for working effectively with the leadership of MedStar Health, its clinical partner. GUMC comprises the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing & Health Studies, the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization. Learn more

Dean for Medical Education Stephen Ray Mitchell, M.D.

A Dreyfus Merit Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Mitchell has been honored by election to a mastership in the American College of Physicians for his work in research in clinical teaching methods, and clinical research and care in Pediatric and Adult Rheumatology and Immunology. He has innovated pedagogical methods in the integrated learning center at the School of Medicine where he has served as Chief Academic officer for the past decade.

Law Center

Dean William M. Treanor

Treanor came to Georgetown from Fordham Law School, where he held the Paul Fuller Chair and had been dean since 2002 and a member of the faculty since 1991. A constitutional law scholar who specializes in constitutional history, he has written extensively on the history of constitutional protection of private property and on the original understanding of the Constitution. He is currently one of the ten most cited legal historians. Treanor was a clerk to Judge Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a speechwriter to the Secretary of Education and a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia. From 1987 to 1990, he worked as associate counsel in the Office of the Iran-Contra Independent Counsel. During the Clinton Administration, he held the post of Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel from 1998 to 2001. Learn more

School of Continuing Studies

Dean Robert Manuel

Manuel has more than 20 years experiences in higher education. As dean of the School of Continuing Studies (SCS), he oversees master’s programs, professional certificates; and a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree in Liberal Studies. SCS also houses summer programs and the Center for Continuing and Professional Education. Prior to arriving at Georgetown, Manuel was assistant dean and clinical associate professor at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS). At SCPS, he administered several masters, bachelors and associate degree programs and managed online certificate programs. Learn more

Georgetown Public Policy Institute

Dean Edward Montgomery

Montgomery came to Georgetown after serving on President Obama’s Auto Task Force and as the Executive Director of White House Council for Auto Communities and Workers. Prior to that appointment, he was dean of the University of Maryland’s largest college, the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences from 2003–2009, where he also served as a professor of economics since 1992. As dean, he focused on building their social science research program, improving faculty productivity, broadening the undergraduate experience and expanding diversity. Learn more