Pulitzer-winning journalist Gettleman to give Krieger lecture

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Jeffrey Gettleman covers 12 African countries for The New York Times.

Jeffrey Gettleman ’94, the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, will deliver the 2015 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture Feb. 25.

His presentation is titled “What’s next? A talk about writing, war and pursuing a passion” and will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.

Gettleman has worked for the Times for 12 years, covering everything from the war in Iraq to the annual possum drop in rural North Carolina. He has won several Overseas Press Club awards and a George Polk Award for foreign reporting. He won the 2012 Pulitzer for his “vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa, a neglected but increasingly strategic part of the world,” the Pulitzer jury said.

Gettleman studied philosophy at Cornell and earned a master’s of philosophy degree from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has appeared as a foreign affairs commentator on the BBC, CNN, NPR and other networks and has written for Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic and GQ. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife and two sons and is working on a memoir.

The Krieger lecture was endowed by Sanford ’65 and Carol Krieger in 2000 in the American Studies Program. “For many years now, Sandy and Carol Krieger’s gift has made possible an annual lecture in U.S. political culture, very broadly conceived,” said Sabine Haenni, associate professor of American studies/Performing and Media Arts and director of the American Studies Program.

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