Andria Wisler joined Georgetown in Fall 2008 as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program on Justice and Peace (PJP) and became Director of the program in January 2011. Andria received her Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education and Philosophy from Columbia University and MA in International Educational Development and Peace Education from Teachers College. Her dissertation is an inquiry into peace knowledge as intellectual heritage and focuses on the development of peace studies in post Yugoslav higher education.

Andria's commitment to peace studies began as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame, and is a continuing thread through her work for social change in various parts of the world, including with farmers in Tanzania, youth in Turkmenistan, and teachers in Israel. After graduating from university, Andria began her vocation within education as a school teacher at an independent school, the Cornelia Connelly Center for Education, which serves low-income girls of the Lower East Side, New York City. She is now on the Board of Directors of that school and served as director of its summer camp programming in upstate New York from 2009-2011. She served as Chair of the Peace Education Special Interest Group of the Comparative and International Education Society (2008-2011).

Andria brings with her to Georgetown diverse undergraduate and graduate teaching experience from the European University Center for Peace Studies (Austria), Manhattan College, the University of Nevada, Reno, and Drexel University. At Georgetown, Andria teaches the introductory course on justice and peace, which offer a community-based learning option, as well as courses in conflict transformation and the senior thesis seminar.

Andria has been involved in many campus initiatives and programs since joining the faculty. In AY 2009-10, she participated in the inaugural group of Doyle Fellows, a campus initiative on inclusion and diversity. For the four months of the Fall 2010 semester, Andria was a faculty-in-residence in Georgetown's Alanya, Turkey study abroad/community living-and-learning program. During the Fall 2011 semester, Andria's JUPS 123 Introduction to Justice and Peace course is designated as a JUHAN course and her JUPS 303 course is part of the Engelhard initiative. During the AY 2011-12, Andria is a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Social Justice (CSJ).

Andria enjoys traveling, playing the piano, and keeping in touch with friends around the world and plans to remain an engaged, politically active person using education for positive social change.