___________________Sarah Stillman____________________ 2007 Plymouth St. NW Washington DC 20012 Phone: 917-675-0970 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION Oxford University, Oxford, England Doctor of Philosophy, Human Geography (2006; D.Phil ABD) Marshall Scholar; Vice Chancellors’ Awardee Yale University, New Haven, CT Master’s Degree, Anthropology (2006), GPA: 4.00 Bachelor’s Degree, Anthropology and Ethnicity, Race and Migration (2006), GPA: 3.98 Summa Cum Laude with Exceptional Distinction; Phi Beta Kappa; Hass Memorial Prize PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Staff Writer, The New Yorker (January 2013 – present) Director, Global Migration Program, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (January 2015 – Present) •Taught “Gender and Migration” course to graduate students, Spring Semester •Supervised team of students in reporting projects tied to women/girls and the refugee crises Visiting Scholar, NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (March 2010 – Present) • Reported from Afghanistan/Iraq as first annual recipient of the Reporting Award • Taught “Writing, Research and Reporting” course in grad journalism program, Spring 2012 Lecturer, Yale University, “Imagining the Iraq War” (Spring 2010) • Designed and taught seminar on Iraq war and construction of U.S. war narratives PUBLICATIONS (Print and Online): The New Yorker; The Washington Post; The Nation; The New Republic.com; The Atlantic.com ; Slate.com; CNN.com; Dallas Morning News; etc. Best American Magazine Writing 2012 (contributor, Columbia University Press, 2012) Soul Searching: A Girl’s Guide to Finding Herself (Simon & Schuster, 2000, re-edition 2012) • Authored young adult book with over 40,000 copies in print; Nautilus Book Award winner. • Foreign publication rights sold to China, Germany, Russia, Holland, Canada, and England. HUMAN RIGHTS WORK AND INTERNATIONAL FIELD RESEARCH Founder, Prison Education Project, Cheshire Correctional Institution, CT (2002-2006) Amnesty International Patrick Stewart Human Rights Scholar, Guatemala City (2003) Chinese Working Women’s Network, Conducted research and fact-finding with non-profit aiding migrant women factory workers, Shenzhen, China (2004) AWARDS: National Magazine Award, Public Interest, 2012; National Magazine Award finalist, 2013 and 2014; Sidney Award winner, 2015; George Polk Award, 2013; Newswomen’s Club of New York, Front Page Award, 2014; Michael Kelly Award, 2012; Overseas Press Club International Human Rights Reporting Award, 2012; Sidney Hillman Prize, 2012; Molly National Journalism Prize 2013, Knight Luce Fellow for Reporting on Global Religion, 2012. .