First launched in 2022, the Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellows Program aims to foster the success and scholarship, teaching and service of tenure-line faculty from diverse backgrounds.
Fellows selected for the one-year program must demonstrate a commitment to academic excellence and diversity, equity and inclusion in their work. They are hired on the tenure track as assistant professors and devote their first years to building their research programs before assuming more teaching and service responsibilities.
“We are delighted to welcome these four exceptional scholars as Provost Distinguished Faculty Fellows,” Provost Robert M. Groves said. “Their research, academic excellence and commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion will be great assets to the Georgetown community.”
Meet the four newest members of Georgetown’s faculty and the second cohort of Provost Distinguished Faculty Fellows.
Melinda González, School of Foreign Service 
A Puerto Rican scholar and poet, Melinda González is a socio-cultural anthropologist who focuses on environmental anthropology and disaster studies in the Culture and Politics major at the Walsh School of Foreign Service. González works on racial, class and gender disparities in the context of environmental disasters. She uses decolonial and indigenous research methods to study new media technologies in environmental justice studies.
González holds a B.A. from Barnard College, an M.A. from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in anthropology and geography with a minor concentration in English literature from Louisiana State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University’s Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and is the Mary Fran Myers Gender and Disaster Award winner, which honors research on gender issues in disaster and emergency management.
Crystal Luo, History, College of Arts & Sciences 
Crystal Luo is an assistant professor of Asian American…
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