I am an author and professor at Columbia's Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). I have been teaching courses at Columbia on international human rights and digital media in a development context for over two decades. I am the former director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (1988-1992) and the author of numerous works, including the play and feature film The Guys and Red Orchestra, a history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany.
My work
My Work:
I use Wikipedia extensively in my classes, often through comparative studies of content in different languages, combined with exercises in editing. I have been especially interested in extending the benefits of digital media to resource-challenged parts of the world with little connectivity and erratic power supplies. In 2016 I led a research seminar on digital infrastructure in Cuba. We are now building on our findings to explore the potential of offline platforms to support medical training in rural areas of Latin America.
