Georgetown University
Quigley's academic home in Washington, D.C.
Also known as: Georgetown University
Quigley's academic home in Washington, D.C., 1941–1976 — the Jesuit university where he taught the foreign-service students whose lecture notes survive as the Lectures corpus (Lectures p. 48).
Quigley's Framing
Georgetown is the institutional setting from which Quigley produced his work — a Jesuit university with strong ties to the U.S. foreign-service community through its School of Foreign Service. His undergraduate course 'Development of Civilization' was the lab in which The Evolution of Civilizations was worked out; his graduate seminars produced the doctoral students who later carried his civilizational framework into the academy and the policy world. The essay on Edmund Walsh captures the Jesuit foreign-policy intellectual culture in which Quigley taught.
Strategic Role
Georgetown's location in Washington — within easy reach of the State Department, the diplomatic corps, and the Cold War-era national-security apparatus — made it an unusually well-placed setting for the kind of historical work Quigley did. Many of his students went into government service; the surviving lecture recordings include occasional asides about specific policy debates of the 1960s that he treats with the proximity of someone who knew the participants personally. Georgetown is, in this sense, both his pulpit and his observation post.
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- quigley-lectures · p. 48 Quigley
Georgetown's School of Foreign Service set the audience for the Development of Civilization course.
- father-walsh Quigley
The Jesuit foreign-policy intellectual culture in which Father Walsh and I worked at Georgetown.