Carole Sargent

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My research focuses on women who lived from 1680-1720 and published about war, politics, foreign affairs, and other topics traditionally addressed by men. They all influenced national events, yet few are known today. This work has been heavily influenced by research from my colleagues in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. My job at Georgetown is guiding faculty in all departments and programs to scholarly publishing at the highest level. I also write about faith-based peace activists working toward nuclear disarmament.

I am the author of three books and the editor of three more. With Fr. Drew Christiansen, SJ (former editor-in-chief of the Jesuits' America magazine), I had the privilege of co-editing two books on nuclear disarmament with the Vatican for Georgetown University Press. The first one took second place for theology/ethics from the Catholic Media Association. http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/world-free-nuclear-weapons In February 2022 I published a book titled "Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli, for Liturgical Press (https://litpress.org/Products/3722/Transform-Now-Plowshares). I spent three years developing a book with Sr. Jeanne Clark OP, "All the Way In: A Story of Activism, Incarceration, and Organic Farming" for Robert Ellsberg at Orbis (https://orbisbooks.com/products/all-the-way-in-a-story-of-activism-incarceration-and-organic-farming). I am currently writing a biography of Ardeth Platte OP, the original for the nun on Orange is the New Black. My first two books were with Farrar, Straus & Giroux, including Traditional Degrees for Nontraditional Students: How to Earn a Top Diploma From America's Great Colleges at Any Age, and I have been on NPR, the BBC, in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, on CNN, 60 Minutes, and in many other national publications.

Experience

  • 2006–present
    Director, Office of Scholarly Publications, Georgetown University
  • 1997–2006
    English Department faculty member, Georgetown University
  • 1994–1997
    Visiting scholar, UNC-Chapel Hill

Education

  • 1994 
    The University of Virginia, PhD
  • 1992 
    The University of Virginia, MA
  • 1990 
    George Mason University, BA

Publications

  • 2024
    Arise and Witness! The War Zone and Prison Poetry of Anne Montgomery RSCJ, New Academia/SCARITH
  • 2023
    Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (co-edited with Drew Christiansen SJ, PhD), Georgetown University Press
  • 2022
    Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli, Liturgical Press
  • 2020
    A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (co-edited with Drew Christiansen SJ, PhD), Georgetown University Press
  • 2018
    Why Ovid's Atalanta (and not Bacon's New Atlantis) was the Source of Delarivier Manley's Title "The New Atalantis", Notes & Queries
  • 2013
    Military Scandal and National Debt in Manley's New Atalantis, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
  • 2011
    How a Pie Fight Satirizes Whig-Tory Conflict in Delarivier Manley's The New Atalantis , Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • 2006
    Persistent Publishing Myths Among Scholarly Authors With Big-Bookstore Dreams, Change
  • 2000
    Traditional Degrees for Nontraditional Students, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Grants and Contracts

  • 2013
    Engaging India Grant
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Georgetown University
  • 1993
    Poe Travel Grant
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    University of Virginia
  • 1990
    Dupont Fellow
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    University of Virginia

Professional Memberships

  • American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Society of Early Americanists
  • National Press Club
  • American Historical Association
  • Associates of the Sacred Heart
  • Frome Society for Local Study

Research Areas

  • Biography (210304)
  • History And Philosophy Of The Humanities (220207)
  • History Of Ideas (220209)
  • Religion And Society (220405)
  • Journalism And Professional Writing (1903)

Contact Carole for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision
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