A roster of Ferris, McGraw, and Robbins Professors, from 1964 to the present
Professors in Residence
1974-present
John McPhee ’53, Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for the New Yorker and author of more than 30 books, teaches one seminar every spring semester
2007-2014
Evan Thomas, Newsweek
2014-present
Joe Stephens, Washington Post
Visiting Professors, 1964–present
1964-1973
Irving Dilliard, St. Louis Post Dispatch
1973-1974
Larry L. King, author
1974-1975
John McPhee ’53, New Yorker (to present)
1975-1976
Haynes Johnson, Washington Post
1976-1977
Robert Massie ’78, biographer
Victor Navasky, Nation
1977-1978
Donald Oberdorfer ’52, Washington Post
1978-1979
Haynes Johnson, Washington Post
1979-1980
Jeremy Bernstein, New Yorker
Blair Clark, CBS News and Nation
Geoffrey Wolff ’61, novelist and essayist
1980-1981
Robert J. Donovan, author
1981-1982
Jeremy Bernstein, New Yorker
Gloria Emerson, author
1982-1983
Lucinda Franks, author
Donald Oberdorfer ’52, Washington Post
1983-1984
Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
Walter Guzzardi, Jr. ’42, Fortune
1984-1985
Ronald Steel, policy analyst
John Noble Wilford, New York Times
1985-1986
Gloria Emerson, author
Francine du Plessix Gray, novelist and critic
Robert Massie ’78, biographer
Harrison E. Salisbury, New York Times
1986-1987
William Greider ’58, author
Donald Oberdorfer ’52, Washington Post
1987-1988
John Herbers, New York Times
Walter Sullivan, New York Times
1988-1989
Jane Kramer, New Yorker
Jonathan Schell, author
Stuart S. Taylor, Jr. ’70, New York Times
1989-1990
James Gleick, author
Paul Taylor, Washington Post
1990-1991
Richard Gilman, author and drama critic
David K. Shipler, New York Times
1991-1992
Jeremy Bernstein, New Yorker
John Darnton, New York Times
Charles Kaiser, author
Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University
Jeremy Treglown, Times Literary Supplement
Geoffrey Wolff ’61, novelist and essayist
1992-1993
Gloria Emerson, author
Samuel G. Freedman, author
Roger Mudd, NBC, CBS, and PBS
1993-1994
Nancy Gibbs, TIME
Roger Mudd, NBC, CBS, and PBS
Karl E. Meyer, New York Times
1994-1995
Barbara Crossette, New York Times
Jim Hoagland, Washington Post
Landon Y. Jones ’66, People
David Remnick ’81, New Yorker
1995-1996
Malcolm W. Browne, New York Times
Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
Paul Taylor, Washington Post
Milton Viorst, New Yorker
1996-1997
Jonathan Alter, Newsweek
Charlotte Grimes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gina Kolata, New York Times
Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker
Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times
1997-1998
Leslie Cockburn, NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS
Jean Strouse, biographer
Lawrence Weschler, New Yorker
Jonathan Weiner, science writer
Christopher Wren, New York Times
1998-1999
Nat Hentoff, Washington Times, Village Voice
Jonathan Sanders, CBS News
Serge Schmemann, New York Times
Alice Steinbach, Baltimore Sun
Richard Stengel ’77, TIME
1999-2000
Ethan Bronner, New York Times
Mitchel Levitas, New York Times
Melvin McCray ’74, ABC News and documentary film producer
Kay Mills, Los Angeles Times
2000-2001
Jill Abramson, New York Times
Ralph Begleiter, CNN
Juanita Darling, Los Angeles Times
Maria Ressa ’86, CNN
Paula Span, Washington Post
Michael Vitez, Philadelphia Inquirer
2001-2002
Michael Dobbs, Washington Post
Barton Gellman ’82, Washington Post
Roberta Oster Sachs, Dateline NBC News
John Seabrook ’81, New Yorker
Jim Willse, Newark Star-Ledger
Alexander Wolff ’80, Sports Illustrated
Christopher Wren, New York Times (Robert Stuart ’37 Visiting Professor)
2002-2003
Joel Achenbach ’82, Washington Post
Ken Armstrong, Chicago Tribune
Peter Godwin, BBC, London Sunday Times
Donna Liu, CNN
Serge Schmemann, New York Times (Robert Stuart ’37 Visiting Professor)
Calvin Sims, New York Times
2003-2004
Jim Dwyer, New York Times
Jeff Gerth, New York Times
Chris Hedges, New York Times
Evan Thomas, Newsweek
Marilyn Thompson, Washington Post
Marc Fisher ’80, Washington Post
2004-2005
Jeffrey Bartholet, Newsweek
Juliet Eilperin ’92, Washington Post
Gilbert Gaul, Washington Post
Roy Gutman, Newsweek
Emilie Lounsberry, Philadelphia Inquirer
David Maraniss, Washington Post\
Joel Stein, TIME
2005-2006
Felicity Barringer, New York Times
Filip Bondy, New York Daily News
Katherine Carpenter ’79, documentary filmmaker
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Pippa Green, South African Public Broadcasting
Margo Jefferson, New York Times
Elizabeth Kendall, author and critic
Chuck Lewis, Center for Public Integrity
Geraldine Moriba-Meadows, NBC News
Deborah Sontag, New York Times
2006-2007
Walt Bogdanich, New York Times
Lisa Cohen, television producer
Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
Michael Duffy, TIME
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Nancy Gibbs, TIME
Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
Greil Marcus, cultural critic
Martha Mendoza, Associated Press
T.R. Reid ’66, Washington Post
Rose Tang, Hong Kong Standard
2007-2008
Peter Applebome, New York Times
Scott Berg ’71, biographer
Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone
Craig Duff, New York Times
James Grimaldi, Washington Post
Daoud Kuttab, Institute for Media Studies, Palestine
Charles Lane, Washington Post
2008-2009
Thanassis Cambanis, foreign correspondent
Barton Gellman ’82, Washington Post
Jim Kelly, TIME
Kathy Kiely ’77, USA Today
Peter Maass, New York Times
Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker
Elisabeth Rosenthal, International Herald Tribune and New York Times
Alex Ross, New Yorker
2009-2010
Martin Gottlieb, New York Times, International Herald Tribune
Dan Grech ’99, National Public Radio
Bill Hamilton, Politico
Athelia Knight, Washington Post
Jane Mayer, New Yorker
Bob Mondello, NPR and Washington City Paper
Paul Salopek, Chicago Tribune
Tom Weber ’89, Smart Money
Jim Willse, Newark Star-Ledger
2010-2011
Lisa Belkin, New York Times
Richard Bernstein, International Herald Tribune
Anne Hull, Washington Post
Joe Richman, Radio Diaries
Elaine Sciolino, New York Times
James Steele, Vanity Fair
Jon Wertheim, Sports Illustrated
2011-2012
Deborah Amos, NPR
James Gorman, New York Times
Daniel Klaidman, Newsweek
Leonard Pitts, Jr., Miami Herald syndicated columnist
Alessandra Stanley, New York Times
Joe Stephens, Washington Post
2012-2013
Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC
Alma Guillermoprieto, author
P. Sainath, The Hindu
Jo Becker, New York Times
Diana Henriques, New York Times
Guy Raz, NPR
Griff Witte, Washington Post
2013-2014
Frank Bruni, New York Times
Steve Drummond, NPR
Carol Giacomo, New York Times
David Kocieniewski, New York Times
Mike McGraw, Kansas City Star
Amy Ellis Nutt, Newark Star Ledger
Keith Richburg, Washington Post
2014-2015
Bruce Auster, NPR
Pam Belluck, New York Times
Eliza Griswold, New York Times
Richard Just, National Journal
James Steele, Vanity Fair
Noy Thrupkaew, The American Prospect
David Wessel, Wall Street Journal
2015-2016
Deborah Amos, NPR
Jennifer Kahn, New York Times Magazine
Kira Kay, PBS, Bureau for International Reporting
David Kushner, Rolling Stone
D.T. Max, New Yorker
Laura Secor, New Yorker
Amy Waldman, New Yorker
2016-2017
Yasmine El Rashidi, author
Kathleen McCleery, PBS NewsHour
Richard Preston, New Yorker
Beena Sarwar, Aman ki Asha
Robert Smith, NPR
Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times
Nicholas Schmidle, New Yorker
Elaine Sciolino, New York Times
Edward Wong, New York Times
2017-2018
Deborah Amos, NPR
Bob Davis, Wall Street Journal
Suki Kim, author
Rebecca Mead, New Yorker
Joe Richman, Radio Diaries
Tanzina Vega, CNNMoney
Jim Dwyer, New York Times
Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post
Michael LaForgia, New York Times
2018-2019
Mike McIntire, New York Times
Pico Iyer, author
Will Englund, The Washington Post
Stacey Vanek Smith, Planet Money; NPR
Deborah Sontag, The New York Times
Michael Calderone, Politico
Kira Kay, PBS NewsHour
Nick Chiles, author
Kathleen McCleery, PBS
2019-2020
Bill Keller, The Marshall Project, The New York Times
Kimbriell Kelly, The Washington Post
Carol Giacomo, The New York Times
Suzy Hansen, author
Jonathan Gertner, The New York Times; author
Kushanava Choudhury, author
Errin Whack, Associated Press
Joe Richman, Radio Diaries
