2025 Faculty Bios

Evelyn Addo-Wallace

Assistant Professor & Assistant Director for Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects Evelyn Addo-Wallace, DNP, MPH, WHNP-BC, a 2023 alumna of Berkley School of Nursing at Georgetown, serves as assistant professor and assistant director for Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) scholarly projects—a newly created role designed to strengthen the DNP program’s infrastructure and scholarly impact.

Before her appointment in July 2025, Dr. Addo-Wallace was an adjunct faculty member in the School of Nursing, teaching in the Midwifery, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, and DNP programs. She brings over a decade of clinical and leadership experience, spanning advanced practice nursing, program development, and health equity advocacy.

Prior to joining Georgetown full-time, Dr. Addo-Wallace served as director of advanced practice nursing and medical director at a large federally qualified health center in New York City, part of Community Healthcare Network. In this dual role, she advanced quality improvement initiatives, expanded access to care for marginalized populations, and cultivated a diverse, collaborative provider workforce committed to community-based care. She also directed New York State’s first Nurse Practitioner Fellowship, a year-long postgraduate training program preparing new nurse practitioners to serve in underserved settings. Her leadership and innovation have been recognized at both state and national levels.

In her current role, Dr. Addo-Wallace partners with students and faculty mentors to guide the design, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of doctoral scholarly projects. She leads enhancements to the seminar courses that support this process, ensuring projects are rigorous, mission-driven, and capable of improving care delivery, advancing health policy, and strengthening nursing practice. Drawing from her own journey as a Georgetown DNP graduate—where her project was recognized as an exemplar and she was selected to deliver the student address at the School of Nursing’s Tropaia Awards Ceremony—she understands the transformative impact of this scholarly work.

Dr. Addo-Wallace is deeply committed to fostering the professional growth of DNP students, helping them evolve as clinicians, leaders, and educators who can translate scholarly ideas into impactful quality improvement initiatives. She integrates the program’s emphasis on health policy and advocacy into both didactic and experiential learning—leveraging the proximity to the U.S. Capitol to enrich the academic experience.

Patricia Akhimie

Patricia Akhimie is Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Director of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network, and Associate Professor of English at Georgetown. She received her PhD in English Literature from Columbia University and previously served as an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.

In addition to her directorial and professorial responsibilities, Dr. Akhimie is the author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World, editor of the Arden Othello (4th series) and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, and co-editor with Bernadette Andrea of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. At the Folger Shakespeare Library, she is curator of the forthcoming exhibition To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare, 450 Years.

Dr. Akhimie’s research areas include Early Modern Critical Race Studies, Early Modern Literature, Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare, Textual Editing, Early Modern Travel Writing, Conduct Literature, Comics and Graphic Novels, Gender, and Colonialism. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, the New York Public Library, and the Ford Foundation.

Matthew Baron

Matthew Baron is joining the McDonough School of Business as an Associate Professor of Finance and as the Associate Director of Research at the Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy. He comes from Cornell University, where he was an associate professor of finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Professor Baron’s primary research focus is on the economics of banking crises. The overarching goal of his research is to uncover the fundamental sources of fragility in the financial system, understand the mechanisms through which distress in the financial sector affects the macroeconomy, and guide policy development to prevent future banking crises. At Cornell, he advised a variety of PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and research assistants, who have subsequently attained positions at top-ranked academic institutions and central banks around the world.

Baron is excited to teach the Investments course at the McDonough School of Business in Fall 2025. Baron holds a PhD in economics from Princeton University and a BS in mathematics from Yale University.

Brad Greenwood

Dr. Brad N. Greenwood is the Costello Distinguished Professor of Business at George Mason University’s Costello College of Business. He joined the faculty at Mason from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Previously, he has also served on the faculty at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. Dr. Greenwood’s research examines the intended and unintended consequences of innovation, and how access to the resulting information affects welfare at the interface between business, technology, and social issues; notably in the contexts of healthcare and entrepreneurship. He is currently an Associate Editor at Management Science and a Senior Editor at MIS Quarterly. His work has been published in such leading outlets as: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, Productions and Operations Management, MIS Quarterly, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, the Communications of the ACM, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the Journal of Medical Internet Research, and PLoS ONE.

His corporate experience includes nearly eight years as a deputy project manager and analyst for CACI International, a mid-sized consulting firm in the greater Washington DC Metro Area. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and Management Information Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Greenwood also received his MBA from the University of Notre Dame; his Master’s of IT from Virginia Polytechnic Institute; and his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. His degrees in law are from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

Jamon Halvaksz

Jamon Alex Halvaksz, II is a new Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology. He earned his BA degrees in French and Anthropology from the University of Kentucky, and his master’s degree and PhD from the University of Minnesota. He comes to Georgetown after working for more than a decade at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he helped establish a PhD program focused on Environmental Anthropology. Before UTSA, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. 

His scholarship combines attention to the politics of resource management, environmental change, and questions of inequality. While initially focused on rural communities in Papua New Guinea, he has turned my analytical attention to urban life, and what it means to be resilient in the face of climate change, population growth, increased demands for housing, water, food, green spaces, breathable air, etc. In short, what kind of politics does the urban require of humanity? While the urban is a site of great inequity, opportunity, diversity, and struggles over identity, it is increasingly a site of climate driven disaster. Droughts, fires, intense rains, and flooding differentially impact US and Oceanic urban communities as recently illustrated by the fires on Maui in 2023. In such situations, the impacts are felt immediately, but in others there is the slow death from the climate crisis which his research seeks understand and address.

Laurel Iber

Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California-Irvine and later, at Oberlin College. I received my PhD in Romance Studies from Duke University in 2020. During my doctoral studies, I was a pensionnaire étrangère at both the École normale supérieure (Ulm) and the École normale supérieure de Lyon, as well as a visiting scholar at the Université Paris-Diderot. 

Beyond French language acquisition, I specialize in 19th- and 20th-century French literature and culture, art history, visual studies, cinema, gender and sexuality studies, medical humanities, and critical theory. 

At Georgetown, I teach courses in French language, along with serving as coordinator for Non-Intensive Intermediate French.

Tommy Jones

Dr. Jones is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Operations Department at the McDonough School of Business, affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and an Entrepreneur . He has nearly 20 years of experience in statistics, econometrics, and machine learning, with a career spanning academia, industry, and government. His work bridges traditional statistical methods with modern machine learning, focusing on interpretability, predictive modeling, and applications in economics and business.

Dr. Jones’s research explores advanced methods and metrics for statistical machine learning, such as transfer learning with Latent Dirichlet Allocation, a generalized R-squared for classification and multivariate prediction, as well as methods for deriving approximate marginal effects in complex predictive models. He has authored and maintains multiple open-source software packages and published on statistical computing, machine learning, and applied analytics.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Science and Informatics from George Mason University, an M.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary. Outside of work, he is a Marine Corps veteran and enjoys boxing.

You Jeung (Nicole) Kim

You Jeung (Nicole) Kim is an incoming Assistant Professor of Marketing at the McDonough School of Business. Before joining Georgetown, she was an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Nicole’s research focuses on understanding social inefficiencies in the marketplace, to help consumers better interact with others through consumption and understand how social inequality might impact consumer decision-making. Nicole is originally from South Korea and she earned her Ph.D. in Marketing at University of Maryland, College Park. Nicole enjoys traveling, pilates, and yummy food. 

Ayşe Candan Kirişci

Dr. A. Candan Kirişci joined the Turkish program as an adjunct lecturer in 2019, teaching at the intermediate and post-advanced levels. Since January 2025, when she began her full-time role as assistant teaching faculty, she has been teaching at all levels, developing new courses and organizing speakers’ events for the Turkish Program. Dr. Kirişci’s previous work experience includes teaching Turkish at the Foreign Service Institute of the U. S. Department of State. Prior to that, she taught English to immigrants through adult education programs at Montgomery College and the Literacy Council of Montgomery County in Maryland.

Kirişci earned a PhD degree from the Department of Western Languages and Literatures of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul with a comparative study on the literary representations of the battles of Gallipoli in Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey. Articles based on her research have been published in these three countries. She has been living in the Washington, D.C. area since 2013.

Ariel Kline

Ariel Kline joins Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History. Ariel’s work examines the relationship between painting and the ideologies that subtend imperial power. In her book manuscript, Of Monsters and Mirrors: Art and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain, she argues that paintings of monsters generated monstrous doubles, which made visible the ideological instabilities and contradictions of the British Empire itself.

She received a PhD from Princeton University in 2024 and an MA from Williams College in 2017. Before joining the faculty at Georgetown, she lectured at the University of Syndey and the Australian National University. This summer, she is a fellow at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Parissa Razmjou

Parissa Safizadeh Razmjou graduated with her BSN from Boston College in 2015. After graduation, she completed the nurse residency program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in the transplant/surgical intensive care unit. Parissa returned to Boston College in 2018 to complete her MSN in Nurse Anesthesia Practice. She began her CRNA career in 2020 at Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital, where she served as Co-Chief Nurse Anesthetist. In 2024, Parissa became an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University and joined full time faculty in 2025. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Roman Gabriel Rivera

I am a labor economist studying policing and crime. I am currently an IRS Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. In 2025, I will join the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor. 

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2023.

Allan A. Tulchin

Allan A. Tulchin is a historian of early modern France, with particular interests in religion, toleration, violence, social history, and gender and sexuality. He completed his undergraduate education at Yale and Cambridge, and his doctorate at the University of Chicago. He is the author of That Men Would Praise the Lord: The Triumph of Protestantism in Nîmes, 1530-1570 (Oxford, 2010). His research has also been published in Sixteenth Century Journal, French Historical Studies, The Journal of Modern History, Past and Present, and American Historical Review. He has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a visiting professor at the University of Bordeaux. He has also given invited lectures at the Sorbonne and Princeton. He is currently completing a book entitled The Enlightenment, the Atlantic, and the French Revolution: Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux. 

Chris Warshaw

I am a Political Science Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Previously, I taught at George Washington University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My research examines how democracy works in the United States, and how to make it work better.  I evaluate the effect of public opinion and elections on political outcomes in city and state governments, as well as the U.S. Congress. I also examine how political institutions and voting rules influence political re presentation. I have a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University and a JD from Stanford Law School. I received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Williams College.

Danielle Wiggins

Danielle Wiggins is a scholar of race and post-1960s politics in the United States. She received her PhD in History from Emory in 2018 and her BA in History from Yale in 2012. Her first book, Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism, will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in September 2025. Black Excellence examines the seemingly conservative and often punitive tendencies within black liberal politics in the post-civil rights era and, in doing so, reveals the intersections between black politics and the evolving  Democratic Party in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Dr. Wiggins’ work has been supported by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the American Council of Learned Societies,  and the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of African American History, Black Perspectives, Atlanta Studies, Slate, and the Washington Post/Time’s “Made By History,” where she served as the inaugural editorial assistant. Prior to joining the Department of History at Georgetown, she was an assistant professor of history in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at Caltech. In her downtime, she enjoys listening to music from before her time (especially Stevie Wonder and The Beatles), bar trivia, reading abolitionist texts, listening to celebrity memoirs, and studying astrology. She is originally from Maplewood, New Jersey.

Wáng Yōu

王悠 Wáng Yōu (she/they) is an economic and environmental historian of late imperial China. Her current book project, Collaboration amidst Conflict: Sustaining the Waterscape of the Lower Yangzi Delta, unravels the social and political entanglements of institutions, gender, and technology through water governance. It also explores community-based solutions for environmental sustainability.

Before joining Georgetown as an Assistant Professor in Chinese history, Dr. Wáng was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. She received her doctoral degree in History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2022. She is also an alumna of the University of Chicago (A.M. ’14) and Zhejiang University (Bachelor of Economics ’12).

Amineh Zadbood

Dr. Amineh Zadbood is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Data Science and Analytics Master’s Program at Georgetown University. She brings expertise in data science, machine learning, and mathematical modeling, with a research focus on developing computational tools to improve complex systems and advance highereducation.

She earned her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2022, along with an M.S. in Industrial Engineering and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics. Since 2022, she has served as an adjunct faculty member at Stevens Institute of Technology, teaching graduate-level data science and engineering economics courses. With over five years of teaching experience, Dr. Zadbood is deeply committed to student advising, mentorship, and preparing students for successful careers in data science.

In her spare time, she enjoys poetry, volleyball, cycling, bowling, soccer, painting, and bird watching. She also loves visiting museums and art galleries, and hosting or attending book discussions and film viewings.

Matthew Zahn

Matthew Zahn is an incoming Assistant Professor in the McDonough School of Business. I earned my PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University. During my PhD studies I spent a year as a fellow at the National Bureau of Economics Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My research typically focuses on how government policies impact outcomes for markets and consumers in a variety of settings, though most frequently healthcare. Methodologically, I aim to bring models informed by economic theory to data with sophisticated analyses, including equilibrium models for counterfactual policy simulations and causal inference methods to quantify treatment effects. These analyses help to inform better policies by understanding how policies impact different types of individuals or markets. I grew up in Vermont and my top 3 Spotify artists last year were Khruangbin, Metallica, and Andrea Bocelli.   

Linxi Zhang

Linxi Zhang received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University in 2023. Her research focuses on the acquisition of Spanish phonology and phonetics, with an emphasis on multilingualism in both children and adults. From 2023 to 2025, she taught Spanish language and culture courses at the University of Chicago, where she also contributed to a curriculum design initiative on Languages for Specific Purposes and proudly managed the Spanish program’s Instagram account. She is delighted to return to Georgetown—as an alumna and now as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish in the same department where she earned her doctorate.