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An Evening with Dr. Jelani Cobb

  • Event Date: November 17, 2024
  • Event Start Time: 5:30 PM
  • Event End Time: 7:00 PM
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The History Department at Rutgers-New Brunswick invites you to an exclusive conversation and dinner with Rutgers PhD, 2003

Dr. Jelani Cobb 

Dean of Journalism at Columbia University

Please join us to learn more from Dr. Cobb about his extraordinary career as an acclaimed public intellectual and university administrator

Monday, November 18, 5:30-7:00pm

301 Van Dyck Hall

RSVP by November 1: https://forms.gle/bZUUGcNLDCj6kQqw5

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Jelani Cobb joined the Columbia Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022.

He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015 and was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer

Prize in Commentary. Dr. Cobb has a B.A. in English from Howard University and completed his M.A. and doctorate in American History at Rutgers University in 2003. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Journalism Project and the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library. In 2023, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

 

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