Tyler Anbinder was awarded the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Emma Briant co-authored the book chapter “Managing the Social Impacts of Austerity Britain: The Cultural Politics of Neo-Liberal ‘nudging’” in Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity (Routledge, 2017).
Debbie Cenziper was featured in a question on the TV game show Jeopardy!: “Like Bob Woodward, at The Washington Post Debbie Cenziper is this type of reporter, from the Latin for ‘to track.’”
Joseph Kip Kosek published the anthology American Religion, American Politics (Yale University Press, 2017).
Steven Livingston presented “Digital Fact-Finding Without Borders: Transnational Advocacy in the 21st Century” at the University of Cambridge.
Anthropology Graduate Teaching Assistant Enquye Wondimu Negash was awarded a $14,835 grant by the Leakey Foundation for her project “Modelling vegetation structure in modern ecosystems: Implications for hominin landscape dynamics.”
Reena Ninan, BA ’01, reported from Nepal for the CBS News documentary The Lost Girls.
Neil R. Portnow, BA ’71, received an Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from Berklee College.
Robert Russo, BA ’08, was profiled by Buzzfeed in the article “The Place Where Letters To Hillary Clinton Go.”
Hakim Walker, PhD ’17, received the Philip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award.
William Youmans published the book An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America (Oxford University Press, 2017).