Nicholas Lemann 
is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia Global Reports, a book publishing venture, and Columbia World Projects, a new institution that implements academic research outside the university. Nicholas Lemann served as Dean of Columbia Journalism School from 2003-13. Lemann is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Widely published, he is the author of six books, including “Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream” (2019); “Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War“; “The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy“; and “The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America.” He is a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and The American Academy of Political & Social Science.
