Marc Howard is a Professor of Government and Law at Georgetown University, where he is the Founding Director of the Prisons and Justice Initiative. He is also the Founder and President of the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice.
teaching
Howard is also a prize-winning teacher who recently received the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers, the Provost's Innovation in Teaching Award, the Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Award for Faculty Excellence, the James S. Ruby Faculty Appreciation Award, and the American Political Science Association’s Distinguished Award for Civic and Community Engagement. “Prisons and Punishment,” “The Forgotten Humanity of Prisoners,” and “Making an Exoneree” (co-taught with his childhood friend and exoneree Marty Tankleff) are among the most sought-after courses at Georgetown. Howard also teaches regularly in prisons, and he enjoys bringing “outside” and “inside” students together in a common classroom.
personal
Marc is a dual citizen of the United States and France. He is a native speaker of both English and French, and also fluent in German and Russian.
Marc has been and remains very active in the sport of tennis, having previously been a four-year starter and two-time captain of the Yale men's tennis team.
Books
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Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism
Oxford University Press, 2017
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The Politics of Citizenship in Europe
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe
Cambridge University Press, 2003