Global and Joint Program Studies

Faculty

• Mohamad Bazzi
  Assistant Professor GloJo
  
  

  Mohamad Bazzi is an assistant professor of journalism at New York University, where he teaches international reporting. He is also an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was the 2008 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow.
  
  Before joining the NYU faculty, Bazzi was the Middle East bureau chief at Newsday from 2003 to 2007. He established Newsday bureaus in Baghdad and Beirut, and he was the lead writer on the Iraq war and its aftermath. He has written extensively about regional politics, Sunni-Shiite tensions, and militant Islam. He also covered the 2000 Palestinian uprising, the war in Afghanistan, and the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. In nearly 10 years on staff at Newsday, he also served as the paper’s United Nations bureau chief and as a metro reporter in New York City.
  
  His essays and commentaries on the Middle East have appeared in The New York Times, London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Salon, and other publications. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the 2008 Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting and analysis on foreign affairs, presented by the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the 2008 American Academy of Religion Award for in-depth reporting on religion.

• Barbara Borst
  Adjunct Faculty
  
  

  Barbara Borst worked for The Associated Press where she was an editor on the international desk, frequently reported from the United Nations and wrote on U.S. and international issues. As a special project for The AP, she planned, wrote and edited coverage of the 2006 U.S. elections for subscribers worldwide. Previously, she had been a free-lance UN correspondent for The Boston Globe. While based abroad for a dozen years, in Nairobi, Johannesburg, Paris and Toronto, she was a Paris correspondent for Inter Press Service news agency and reported frequently for Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Los Angeles Times, The Independent, The Times (London), The Associated Press and others. Before working abroad, she was a staff writer for The Denver Post, a writer and editor for The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., and managing editor of Yacht Racing magazine.

  She has taught at the NYU Center for Global Affairs since 2000, offering courses on the news media and global affairs, transitions to democracy, humanitarian aid and intervention, and non-governmental organizations. She received an NYU award for teaching excellence in February 2007.

  She earned a B.A. in English from Yale University and a master’s in international affairs from Boston University’s overseas program in Paris.

• Robert S. Boynton
  Associate Professor Lit Rep, Director
  
  

  Robert S. Boynton is the director of NYU's Literary Reportage concentration. He was graduated with honors in philosophy and religion from Haverford College, and received an MA in political science from Yale University. His book, The New New Journalism was published by Vintage Books in 2005, and he has written about culture and ideas for The New Yorker (where he has been a contributing editor) and Harper's (where he has been a senior editor). His byline has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Lingua Franca, Bookforum, Columbia Journalism Review, The New Republic, The Nation, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and many other publications. For a selection of his work, go to robertboynton.com. Information about The New New Journalism can be found at newnewjournalism.com.

  Watch Boynton's video on Literary Reportage.

   

• David Dent
  Associate Professor
  
  

  David J. Dent is author of In Search of Black America, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2000. He is also author of the forthcoming American Extremes, to be published by St Martin's Press. He has lectured on the "invisible black majority" at universities across the country. He was a 2004 media fellow of the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation and his articles have appeared in several publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Book Review and Education Life sections, Psychology Today, Savoy, Inc., Fortune Small Business, Details, Best Life, The Real Deal, Playboy, Essence and The Washington Post. He is an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University and has also taught in the Africana Studies Program. He has twice received the university's Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service and has served as an advisor and workshop leader for the university's Faculty Resource Network, which has established relationships between NYU and many historically black colleges. He has also served on the board of The Calhoun School and is a graduate of Morehouse College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

• Brooke Kroeger
  Professor GloJo, Director
  
  

  Brooke Kroeger directs Global and Joint Program Studies and is the faculty liaison for The Local East Village, the collaborative community news and information site of NYU Journalism and the New York Times. She was department chair from 2005-2011 and the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s inaugural director from 2008-2011.

  She is a 2013 Senior Fellow of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.

  She is the author of Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception and its companion database; Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are (Fall 2003), Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst (1999), and Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (1994).

  As a journalist, she worked for Newsday, serving as UN Correspondent and as a deputy metropolitan editor for New York Newsday. This followed an eight-year stint overseas in the Scripps Howard days of United Press International with postings in Chicago, Brussels, London and Tel Aviv. She was Tel Aviv bureau chief for three years before returning to London to serve as the agency's chief editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She started with the wire service in its Chicago bureau, and over the course of four years, wrote about everything from local and state politics to sports. Her freelanced work has appeared in various magazines as well as in the New York Times, Newsday, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. She was the principal consultant for the PBS documentary on Nellie Bly for “The American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days." Reviews of her books and a selection of her work can be viewed on her website.

  Watch Kroeger's video on Literary Reportage.

• Jason Maloney
  Clinical Associate Professor
  
  

  Jason Maloney is an award-winning cameraman, editor and news and documentary producer specializing in foreign affairs coverage. His work has appeared on ABC, CBC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, HDNet, PBS, Nytimes.com and Time.com.

  In the last year, Jason has reported for PBS NewsHour from Lebanon, Bosnia and Rwanda. His early 2010 report “Saving Haiti’s Mothers”, filmed at the time of the earthquake, aired on Now on PBS. In 2009, he produced the “Fragile States” series for NewsHour, examining the causes of instability, and possible solutions, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor, Bosnia and Haiti. He also produced an investigation on UN peacekeeping in the Congo for Now on PBS and HDNet World Report. His 2008 work included extensive reporting on the Russia-Georgia War and an Emmy-winning examination of India’s rising middle class. In 2007 Jason produced a news documentary on Nashi, Russia’s pro-Kremlin youth group. “Uganda’s Silent War”, which Jason wrote, produced, shot and edited in 2007 for PBS NewsHour and HDNet World Report, won the Robert F. Kennedy Award, a First Place National Headliner Award and earned two Emmy Nominations.

  From 2005 to early 2006 Jason developed and served as editorial producer on a DuPont award-winning documentary for the New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Company on nuclear proliferation. In the summer of 2004, he traveled to the Darfur region of Sudan to report for the CBS News program 60 Minutes on the humanitarian crisis there. While based in Southeast Asia in 2001-2002, Jason produced, shot and edited "A Dirty War" for PBS NOW with Bill Moyers on the civil war in Aceh, Indonesia. In 1999, he produced his first independent documentary while on an International Reporting Project fellowship in Guinea-Bissau.

  From 1996 to 2001 Jason worked at ABC News Primetime Live, with assignments that took him from Siberia to Yemen to the American South. "The Unwanted Children of Russia" won the DuPont, Overseas Press Club and RFK awards. "Germ Warfare: Weapons of Terror" and "Attack on the USS Cole" both won the New York Festivals Award. 

  Jason holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a Masters from the London School of Economics. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Jason is the co-author of Your America, published July 2008 by Palgrave MacMillan. 

  Jason is co-founder of the Bureau for International Reporting (BIR) – a non-profit organization dedicated to producing and providing vital international television news programming to an American audience.

• Suketu Mehta
  Professor
  
  

  Suketu Mehta is a journalist and fiction writer. His nonfiction book "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found" won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler. Mehta is currentlly working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship.

  Watch Mehta's video on Literary Reportage.

• Judith Shulevitz
  Adjunct Faculty
  
  
  Judith Shulevitz is the science editor of The New Republic. Before that, she was the founding culture editor of Slate and the editor of Lingua Franca, which won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence under her editorship. She has been a columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Slate, and New York Magazine. Her book, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time (2010), was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. It also won the The American Library Association’s 2011 Sophie Brody Medal for Jewish Literature.
• Sarah Stillman
  Visiting Scholar
  
  

  Stillman, a freelance journalist who was an embedded journalist in Iraq, is the the inaugural recipient of The Reporting Award. In 2008, Stillman traveled to Iraq as a foreign correspondent for TruthDig, where she embedded with the 116th Military Police Company. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Nation, the New Republic, the Dallas Morning News, and other outlets. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, Stillman went on to pursue her doctorate as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford. Currently, Stillman is a fellow of Yale’s Morse College, where she co-teaches a course on the Iraq war with a U.S. Army captain.

• Patrick Symmes
  Adjunct Faculty
  
  

  Patrick Symmes is a correspondent and travel writer for national magazines, and the author of two books on the Cuban Revolution, "Chasing Che" (2000) and “The Boys from Dolores” (2007), which made the New York Times Ten Best Books list for 2007. As a long-time Contributing Editor at Harper's, Outside, and Condé Nast Traveler, he has specialized in portraits of guerrilla armies, revolutionary movements, and closed societies, and has reported world-wide for more than 20 years on the intersection of travel with geopolitics. A former Harper's Fellow at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, he also publishes in Newsweek, GQ, Mother Jones, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the Telegraph in London, and has been anthologized by Best American Science Writing and Best American Travel Writing 11 times.