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Anne Nelson
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
an115@columbia.edu
Biography:
Anne Nelson is an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, where she teaches "New Media in Development Communications."
Nelson specializes in the area of media development, democratization and human rights. She is the author of "The Media as a Non-State Actor in the Arena of Human Rights" (Columbia University Seminars/Columbia University Press), "The Demise of the War Correspondent?" (Columbia Journal of International Affairs), Murder Under Two Flags: the US, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-Up (Houghton Mifflin), and Human Rights in Honduras After General Alvarez (Human Rights Watch). She co-authored and edited Twenty Years and Forty Days: Life in a Cuban Prison (Human Rights Watch). As Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (1988-1992) she was the author and editor of numerous publications on international press freedom, including the first Journalists' Safety Guide to the Former Yugoslavia, the Attacks on the Press annual reports, and many regional media analyses. She was a war correspondent in Latin America, and also reported from Eastern Europe and Asia. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Macleans, and many other periodicals, as well as the BBC, the CBC, NPR and PBS. Her writing has won six awards, including the Livingston Award for international reporting.
As playwright and screenwriter, she is the author of "The Guys," a play about the post-9/11 experience, which has been produced throughout the United States and in ten foreign countries. It was published by Random House and Dramatists Play Service, and was made into a feature film in 2002. Her play "Savages," based on the true story of a court martial for war crimes during the US occupation of the Philippines, was produced off-Broadway in 2006 and will be published by Dramatists Play Service.
Nelson was the recipient of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship and a John McCloy Fellowship for her forthcoming book on the culture of German resistance in Berlin (to be published in spring of 2009).
Research interests: Media technology and markets; news media and foreign policy; war correspondence; international press freedom.