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Human Rights, Race & Identity, Religion
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The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program
The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program
Eyal Press is a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is a contributing writer at the Nation and a journalist who has written extensively about politics, social issues and the world of ideas. His essays, reviews, and feature stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, The Columbia Journalism Review and numerous other publications. His first book, Absolute Convictions, a narrative account of the abortion wars that racked the city of Buffalo, NY, was published by Henry Holt in 2006. He is currently working on a book about civil disobedience and acts of conscience, examining the flip side of the "banality of evil," that will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Press graduated from Brown University in 1992 with a BA in history. He was a contributing writer at Lingua Franca, a magazine that covered academic life and the world of ideas, until 2001. He is a past recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and is a fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities.
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