Vanessa R. Corcoran is an advising dean and history professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University. In addition to Foreign Policy, her writing has been published in the National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal Magazine, America Magazine, the Conversation, and Perspectives on History.
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