Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program
 

Schwartz Fellows

In addition to underwriting New America's Fellows progam as a whole, the generous support of Bernard L. Schwartz also provides for several named fellowships. More information on the individuals currently holding these positions is available below.

Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart Schwartz Senior Fellow

Peter Beinart is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at The City University of New York. He is also Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast, and a Contributor to Time. His first book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals--And Only Liberals--Can Win the War… more

Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Eleanor Brown

Schwartz Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Immigration, Trade & Globalization

Jorge Castañeda

Schwartz Senior Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy

Michael Dannenberg

Michael Dannenberg Schwartz Senior Fellow

Joel Garreau

Joel Garreau Schwartz Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Telecom & Technology

Paul Glastris

Paul Glastris Schwartz Fellow

Paul Glastris is the editor in chief of the Washington Monthly. From September 1998 to January, 2001, he was special assistant and senior speechwriter to President Bill Clinton. He wrote over 200 speeches for the president, on subjects ranging from education to health care to the budget. He co-wrote the president's address to… more

Tim Golden

Schwartz Senior Fellow
Tim Golden is an investigative journalist who writes about legal policy in the fight against terrorism and other issues related to the treatment of terror suspects. He is on leave from The New York Times, where he is a senior writer and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine.… more
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy, Terrorism

Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold Schwartz Fellow
Eliza Griswold is a writer who focuses on conflict, human rights, and religion. Her reportage and analyses have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic, among other publications. She was a 2007 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is the recipient… more
Areas of Expertise: Africa, Human Rights, Religion

Christopher Hayes

Christopher Hayes Schwartz Fellow

Christopher Hayes is the Washington D.C. Editor of The Nation. Since 2002, he has been reporting and writing on politics, economics, and labor for a wide variety of independent publications. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, The Guardian, and The Chicago Reader. From… more

Christina Larson

Christina Larson Schwartz Fellow

Megan McArdle

Megan McArdle Schwartz Fellow

Megan McArdle is the Business and Economics editor for The Atlantic.  Her writing has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, the New York Sun, The New York Post, Reason magazine, and Salon.com.  Ms. McArdle holds a Bachelors in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and… more

Areas of Expertise: Economic Growth, Fiscal Policy

Sean McFate

Sean McFate Schwartz Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Africa, Foreign Policy, National Security

Dayo Olopade

Schwartz Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Race & Identity

Eyal Press

Eyal Press Schwartz Fellow

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… more

Areas of Expertise: Human Rights, Race & Identity, Religion

Reihan Salam

Schwartz Fellow

Reihan Salam writes on politics, culture, and technology, and was previously an associate editor at The Atlantic, a producer for NBC News, a junior editor and editorial researcher at The New York Times, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. He is the co-author of… more

Nicholas Schmidle

Nicholas Schmidle Schwartz Fellow

Nicholas Schmidle writes about the intersection of culture, religion and politics abroad. He has

Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy, Pakistan

Steven Teles

Schwartz Fellow

Steven Teles is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has been a professor or visiting researcher at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Maryland, Brandeis University, the University of London, Holy Cross and Hamilton Colleges. He is the author, most recently, of The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the… more

Nicholas Thompson

Schwartz Fellow
Nicholas Thompson is a senior editor at Wired Magazine and the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, which Henry Holt published in September 2009.

Robert Wright

Robert Wright Schwartz Senior Fellow

Robert Wright is Editor in Chief of Bloggingheads.tv and the author of The Moral Animal (Pantheon, 1994), Nonzero (Pantheon, 2000), and The Evolution of God (Little, Brown, 2009). He is a contributing editor for The New Republic and a contributor to Time and Slate. He has also written… more

Tim Wu

Tim Wu Schwartz Fellow

Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. He is the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? (Oxford U. Press, 2006). Mr. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine and was listed as one of… more

Areas of Expertise: Telecom & Technology