Bard Visiting Writer and Scholar M. Gessen Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essays on Authoritarianism, Erosion of Democracy

M. Gessen, the Russian-American journalist, author, and visiting writer at Bard College, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for a body of work in The New York Times examining the rise of authoritarianism and the erosion of democratic norms. M. Gessen, a visiting scholar at Bard, has won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. (Photo by Lena Di) The Pulitzer committee cited what it described as an “illuminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw on history and personal experience to probe timely themes of oppression, belonging, and exile.” At Bard, where Gessen has served since... https://www.thedailycatch.org/articles/bard-visiting-writer-and-scholar-masha-gessen-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-essays-on-authoritarianism-erosion-of-democracy/