Sydney Van Morgan, Sr. Lecturer and International Studies Program Director, holds a PhD in government from Cornell University and has taught courses on comparative political sociology, ethnic violence, party politics, and qualitative methods. As International Studies Program Director, she is responsible for the academic coordination of six stakeholder departments in the humanities and social sciences, establishing the curriculum for the major in collaboration with these departments and their faculty. She also administers the BA/MA Program with the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies in DC, the Junior Year/Semester Abroad Program at SAIS Europe in Bologna, the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program, and an eclectic range of activities associated with the Aronson Center for International Studies. Dr. Van Morgan is actively involved in several professional organizations in the field of international education, where she has presented papers on topics such as evaluation practices and enrollment trends in international studies. Her most recent scholarly project explores the life history and Quaker roots of Johns Hopkins, the founder of Johns Hopkins University. Her co-authored preprint article "Seeking the Truth: Johns Hopkins and Slavery" is available on Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/zra5f/. A companion blog, The House of Hopkins, can be viewed at https://www.thehouseofhopkins.com/.