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J-School students have produced wide-ranging reporting on the pandemic, 2020 election and more. Visit Columbia News Service to read more of their work. Photo: Reed Young, '22 Part-time M.S.
Student Work
Jeremy Olds, '17 M.A. Arts & Culture, tells the story of an unlikely art collective on Tennessee's death row in his Master's Thesis, which was published by The Marshall Project.
Livia Albeck-Ripka, '17 M.A. Science, published part of her thesis in The New York Times. It examines the effects that climate change has on the mental health of an indigenous community in Canada.
Javier Sauras, '16 M.A. Politics, published several stories stemming from his Master's Thesis, about a program in Bolivia that combines modern maternity medicine with traditional indigenous practices.
How One Bolivian Hospital is Battling Maternal Mortality - By Reaching Back Thousands of Years
Shortly after graduation, Daniel Flatley, '17 M.A. Business, published his Master's Thesis about the coal business in West Virginia. He's now covering regulation in Washington, D.C. for Bloomberg.
An American Bankruptcy
Kamala Kelkar, '15 M.A. Science, wrote her Master's Thesis on the use of brain scans in the courts. Her story, "Can a brain scan uncover your morals?" was published by The Guardian.
Sara Elkamel, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, reviews the performance of Auction in Hungary.
Read her review.
Amy Lieberman, '14 M.A. Politics, wrote her thesis on Arizona's immigration patrol rebellion.
Read the published article in Slate.
Mona Lalwani, '14 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote her Master's Thesis on how banning club drugs hasn't made users safer.
Read the published article in Vox.
For his Master's Thesis, Ben Taub, '15 M.A. Politics, reported on European teens who joined ISIS. It became the lead story in The New Yorker, where Taub is now a staff writer.
Learn how the story came together.
Vanessa Quirk, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote her Master's Thesis about an underground park called the Lowline in New York City. It was published in Atlas Obscura.
Read about how the work came together.
Katie Worth, '15 M.A. Politics, revealed the imprecise science of DNA testing in court in her Master's thesis, which was co-published Frontline, The Marshall Project and Fusion.
Read the published article in Fusion.
Carmen Graciela Díaz, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote about theater in Hungary during a funded reporting trip with 12 other students.
Read her feature article.