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Dr. Sarah Stiles

"A Discussion with Sarah Stiles, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University"

Background: Sarah Stiles is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University. She is a strong proponent of social entrepreneurship, and has been active in the Washington, D.C. community. This discussion took place on October 12, 2011 and is part of the Georgetown University response to the White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge. Nafees Ahmed, a member of Georgetown College class of 2012, conducted this interview.

How has your personal journey brought you to your work today? Why were you drawn to these particular issues?

My personal journey started very traditionally, conventionally. My mother raised my brothers and me in the Lutheran church. My father said he was a backsliding agnostic or a backsliding atheist and we never really knew what that meant. So my faith journey began with my mother and I am very thankful for that because I got a very good foundation for reading The Bible, going to church and thinking about such things. But when I was a young adult I kind of lost it and didn’t have a church home. When I lived in Boston my mother would ask me if I was going to church and would get very annoyed when I told her no. But it was also a time of exploration. I read about the religions of the world, a lot of Buddhist literature, Karen Armstrong, and learned about Islam. One of my best friends is Buddhist and learned Tibetan Buddhism from her. I began to meditate. Click here to read the full article>>>

Dr. Timothy Wickham Crowley

"Students Question Perceptions of Race and Color"

On a recent day in “Race, Color, and Culture,” class discussion included a video clip of comedian Margaret Cho, political cartoons of racial stereotypes, and a Johnny Carson Tonight Show sketch. For Associate Sociology Professor Timothy Wickham-Crowley and his students, these diverse sources are just a few of the tools the class employs to better understand race and culture in America and around the world.

“Race, Color, and Culture” is one of 12 Ignatius Seminars offered to first-year students. The seminars embody the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis or educating the whole person, giving students the opportunity to delve into a subject with a faculty member in a small, individualized setting. This is the third year that Professor Wickham-Crowley, chair of the Sociology Department, has offered the course, which explores the connections between “life chances” and culture. “The chances to do well or not to do well in society are linked to who we are; it’s linked to class difference. A key element in status groups in our country is race and ethnicity,” Wickham-Crowley said. The students in his class have “a heightened awareness that these differences matter, and they want to find out more about it.” Click here to read the full article>>>

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