Joshua Mitchell is a professor of political theory at Georgetown University. He has been chairman of the Government Department and also associate dean of Faculty Affairs at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar. During the 2008-10 academic years, he took leave from Georgetown to serve as the acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. Dr. Mitchell published American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time (Encounter Books) in 2020.