Joshua MitchellJOSHUA MITCHELL is a professor of political theory at Georgetown University. The author of numerous journal articles and four books, most recently, American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time, Professor Mitchell's rsearch focuses on Western political philosophy and theology. In 2005, he was part of the team responsible for founding Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar. From 2008-10, while on leave from Georgetown, Professor Mitchell served as acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. He lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore.