Stipend
Each participant who attends the entire Institute in person will receive a stipend of $2,850, which they can use to cover room, board, and transportation. It is taxable income. Participants must remain during the institute’s entire duration and participate in its work on a full-time basis. If a participant is obliged through special circumstances to arrive after the beginning or depart before the end of the Institute, they will receive a prorated share of the stipend. Please only apply if you expect to be able to attend the entire 3-week program in person.
Institute Location: Georgetown University’s Hilltop Campus
Georgetown University, established in 1789, is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Our Institute will take place on its main campus, also known as the Hilltop Campus. It is located at the heart of the picturesque historic Georgetown Neighborhood. It is a safe and pedestrian-friendly neighborhood. It offers a wide range of dining options within walking distance from the campus. You can enjoy (window) shopping along the famed M Street. You can spend a leisurely summer morning or evening at Georgetown Waterfront Park by the Potomac River (just under a mile from the campus). From there, it is a short walk to the gorgeous John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. If you plan well, you can catch one of the free daily (6 PM) shows at its Millennium Stage.
Transportation
Air travel or travel by Amtrak
Three airports service the DC area:
- Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI)
- Dulles International Airport (IAD)
- Reagan National Airport (DCA)
Rental cars and taxi/ride-share services are available at all airports.
Public Transportation from BWI: You can take a shuttle bus from the airport to the MARC train station. MARC and Amtrak trains travel frequently from there to Union Station in DC. From Union Station, take the Red Line metro to Dupont Circle.
Public Transportation from DCA: In the airport terminal, look for signs indicating the direction to the Metrorail. Take the Blue Line metro to Rosslyn.
Public Transportation from IAD: In the airport terminal, look for signs indicating the direction to the Metrorail. Take the Silver Line metro to Rosslyn.
If you are coming by Amtrak, please get off at the Union Station and take the Red Line metro to Dupont Circle.
Local public transportation
Metrorail: Georgetown’s main campus (Hilltop Campus) is a little over one mile from the Rosslyn Metro Station, across the Key Bridge. It is a walkable distance, and there is a continuous pedestrian path from the metro station to the campus. A free Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle (GUTS) bus runs regularly between the Rosslyn Metro Station (Blue, Orange, and Silver lines) and campus. Another GUTS bus runs between the Dupont Circle Metro Station (Red Line) and the campus. Both shuttles serve faculty, staff, students, and visitors (no IDs required). For more information and GUTS bus timetables, please visit the GUTS website.
Metrobus: The G2 bus line stops at the University gate at 37th and O Streets, NW. You may transfer to the westbound G2 bus from the Metro Red Line at Dupont Circle. The bus stops on the north side of P Street at 20th Street, just west of the Circle. The westbound buses say “Georgetown University”; the eastbound, “Howard University.” For more information and Metrobus schedules, please visit the Metro website. For information about other Metrobus lines serving the Georgetown neighborhood, please visit GU Transportation.
At the beginning of the institute, every participant will be given a preloaded SmarTrip card, which you can use for any Metrorail or Metrobus in the DC metro area. While the preloaded amount is meant to cover the fares for the local field trips organized by the Institute (see the page on Site Visits), you can register the card online and add an additional amount to it there (you can also add fares at metro stations). You may also find it helpful to download the SmarTrip app and transfer the physical card to the app and use a mobile payment method.
Driving
Georgetown University’s Hilltop Campus is located at 3700 O St., NW, Washington, DC. Street parking is available but limited and restricted. The Hilltop Campus garage is off of Canal St. NW. For information about visitor parking, please consult the GU Transportation website. Participants with cars must make their own arrangements for parking. The Institute cannot secure parking permits for them. For specific driving directions, please check out the visit the Hilltop Campus webpage.
Resources at the Philosophy Department
All plenary sessions of the Institute will take place in the Philosophy Department’s conference room (New North 204 or find it on this campus map). The room is equipped with the necessary computing and audio-visual resources. For the breakout sessions, we will reserve group study rooms in Georgetown University’s main library, but participants will also be able to use vacant office spaces in the department. Across from the conference room is a fully equipped kitchen. The kitchen includes a large fridge, a four-burner electric stove (along with basic cookware), a microwave, two toasters, an industrial coffee machine and teamaker (with a regular supply of assorted teas and coffee), and several sets of tableware. Adjacent to the kitchen is a lounge with sofas. Participants will be granted full access to this entire space. They are warmly welcome to spend coffee and lunch breaks there, so long as they observe commonsensical rules of courtesy, such as cleaning after themselves and not interrupting others who may be working down the hallway.
Resources at the library
The Georgetown University Library will be an excellent resource to the Institute in multiple ways. Both the Dean of the Library, Harriette Hemmasi, and the Director of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Keith Gorman, who oversees the work of all subject librarians, have pledged their support for the Institute. During the Institute, the participants will be able to obtain the status of Sponsored University Associate, which affords a range of services, including access to the main library. Participants with this status will have borrowing privileges and can reserve spaces for group meetings inside the library. The library has an excellent collection of primary and secondary literature relevant to the Institute. The Institute’s directors will work with Dr. Mary Beth Corrigan, a trained historian and archivist, to create a lib-guide that the participants can examine during the Institute and after.
Accessibility
All the spaces mentioned above are accessible for wheelchair users. At least a month before the Institute begins, the Institute’s directors will ask participants whether they have other accessibility requests and will work with relevant stakeholders at the university to ensure that all such requests are addressed as satisfactorily as possible.
Housing
The Institute directors will not be able to secure on-campus housing for participants. Participants are advised to explore as many options as possible on their own. During the spring semester of 2025, a lot of summer subletting ads will show up online around the campus and in the surrounding neighborhoods. Participants should search broadly and consider all the neighborhoods along the metro lines that stop at the Rosslyn or Dupont Circle metro stations (as mentioned above, there is a free shuttle that runs between Georgetown University’s main campus and each of these stations). The south/Rosslyn side of the Key Bridge, a pedestrian friendly bridge that connects Rosslyn and Georgetown, may have more affordable options. One may consider options as far as Alexandria, VA (a beautiful neighborhood on the Blue Line), for example, where one of the Institute’s directors lives.