Rev.
Ryan Maher, S.J.
Associate Dean of Georgetown College & Director of Catholic Studies
Contact Information:
303 ICC
202-687-6045 (Office)
rjm27@georgetown.edu
Interests:
American politics, Flannery O'Connor, Broadway
Interesting Facts:
Fr. Maher visited all 50 states in the Union before turning 40, a promise he made to himself when he graduated from Georgetown. Among his other accomplishments, he attended the State of the Union Address in 1985, worked on Capitol Hill as a Senate staffer for four years, and kept his cool when the Supreme Court selected the president in 2000. Fr. Maher was the first Jesuit ever assigned to work in the country of Qatar.
Favorite Book:
North to the Orient by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the Last Lion by William Manchester, The Habit of Being: the Letters of Flannery O'Connor, ed. S. Fitzgerald, Champion Dog Prince Tom by Fritz and Klute
Favorite Saying:
"All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going." -- Anne Lamott
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