the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC. In 1998, Ungar published Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants. The following year he published another, Africa: The People and Politics of an Emerging Continent. Ungar was the 24th director of the Voice of America, the U.S. government's principal international broadcasting agency, from 1999 to 2001. In that capacity, he oversaw more than 900 hours a week of VOA broadcasts in English and 52 other languages to some 100 million people around the world. Ungar became the tenth President of Goucher College on July 1, 2001. In 2006, Ungar instituted a mandatory study abroad requirement for all students. Ungar resigned as president of Goucher on June 30, 2014 after being away on sabbatical. In the fall of 2014, Ungar taught a freshman seminar as a visiting professor at Harvard College called Free Speech, a course he previously taught at Goucher. He joined the faculty of Georgetown University Spring 2015. At Georgetown, he is the director of the Free Speech Project which is a grant recipient of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Ungar is a Lumina Foundation Fellow. Honors and awards In 1972, Ungar won a George Polk Award for his book, The Papers & The Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle over the Pentagon Papers. In May 1999 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Wilkes University in his hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He has traveled widely in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia; he is fluent in French and also speaks Spanish. He serves on the boards of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies and the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and is past chair of the Maryland Independent College and University Association. Mr. Ungar is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he is an appointed member of the U.S. Public Interest Declassification Board. In June 2000, at its annual convention in Buenos Aires, the Rotary Foundation gave him its Scholar Alumni Achievement Award. Personal life Ungar lives in Baltimore and Washington with his wife, Beth Ungar, a physician in the practice of internal medicine. They have a daughter, Lida, and a son, Philip. References External links Goucher College profile Sanford Ungar profile (Maryland TESOL) Living people 1945 births American reporters and correspondents Harvard College alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics American