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David
Shipler
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David Shipler
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Former Foreign Correspondent of
the New York Times
Woodrow Wilson Fellow
March 23,-28, 2003
Public Address:
"Beyond Civil Rights: Hidden Stereotyping by Blacks and Whites"
Location: Furman University, Hartness Pavilion
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
A native of
Chatham, New Jersey, David Shipler earned his bachelor degree from
Dartmouth College in 1964 and now serves as a member of the Dartmouth
College Board of Trustees. Upon graduation, Shipler joined the United
States Navy as an officer and served on a destroyer from 1964-66.
Following his stint in the US Navy, Shipler joined The New York
Times as a news clerk in 1966 and was promoted to city staff report
in 1968, covering housing, poverty and politics and winning awards
from the American Political Science Association and the New York
Newspaper Guild.
Shipler's has
spent an extensive portion of his professional career overseas.
From 1973-75, Shipler served as a New York Times correspondent in
Saigon, covering South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, while
also reporting from Burma. Shipler spent a semester in 1975 at the
Russian Institute of Columbia University studying Russian language
and Soviet politics, economics and history to prepare for his assignment
as a correspondent in the Moscow Bureau from 1975-79, where he served
as Moscow Bureau Chief from 1977-79. While there, Shipler wrote
the best-seller Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams.
From 1979-84,
Shipler served as Bureau Chief of The New York Times in Jerusalem
and was co-recipient of the 1983 George Polk Award fro coverage
of the Lebanon War. He then spent a year, 1984-85, as a visiting
scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington to write Arab
and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. After completing the
book, Shipler served as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in the Washington
Bureau of The New York Times until 1988. From 1988-90 he was a senior
associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writing
on transitions to democracy in Russia and Eastern Europe for The
New Yorker and other publications.
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