High School Summer Institute Selection Committee
Zachary R. Dowdy
Zachary
R. Dowdy has been adjunct instructor in Stony Brook's journalism program
since January 2003. The 1989 graduate of Stony Brook University has
worked for The Boston Herald, where he covered breaking news
and The Boston Globe, where he covered urban affairs, international
issues and criminal justice with an emphasis on corrections. He reported
and wrote investigative series for both newspapers.
Dowdy is currently a criminal justice reporter for Newsday, where he penned a news column about criminal justice and legal issues. He also has served as Newsday's state, national and foreign correspondent, filing stories from out-of-state, abroad or the United Nations. Dowdy has taught journalism and writing courses at both the University of Massachusetts-Boston and Roxbury Community College, in Boston. He also participated as a writing coach in Partners in Print, a journalism program for elementary, middle and high school students in Boston.
He served two terms as president of the Boston Association of Black Journalists and is currently vice president-print of the New York Association of Black Journalists. He continues to mentor students at the Columbia University journalism program and NYABJ's High School Journalism Workshop. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Stony Brook, and master's degrees in English and journalism from Harvard and Columbia universities, respectively.
Cathrine Duffy
Cathrine Duffy teaches News Writing and Reporting (JRN 110) and News Editing (JRN 395). A graduate of Stony Brook University, she was an editor at Newsday for 10 years. She worked as news editor and layout editor on the copy desk and served as Sunday city editor. She also worked on the assigning desk as regional Long Island editor and obituaries editor.
She has worked as letters editor for Newsday and was coordinating editor for that paper’s Veteran’s Day magazine “Generations of Honor.” Her feature writing has appeared in Newsday.
Nadine Bouler
Nadine Bouler has been an English teacher for Jericho Public Schools since 1995, having supervised one of the student newspapers from 1997 to 2001. She has also served as an adjunct instructor of critical thinking at St. Joseph’s College, as well as an instructor for Nassau BOCES. Serving on the conference committee for the Long Island Language Arts Council, Bouler was in charge of the Idea Exchange and presented several workshops for the organization.
Having earned an Art and Architecture History bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University in 1990, Bouler interned at Artforum Magazine and worked in the manufacturing department at Raven Press. She received her master’s degree in English literature from Hofstra University in 1994. Currently serving as Creative Team Advisor for Bouler Design Group, an architecture firm, Bouler is writing a weekly design and architecture blog: boulerdesigngroup.blogspot.com.
Charles Haddad
For
25 years, Charles Haddad worked as an award-winning editor and writer
at many news organizations, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Business Week
magazine. He has also taught nonfiction writing at Emory University
and served as director of a Knight Fellowship that promoted excellence
in medical and public health journalism. As part of that fellowship,
he ran training programs for journalists from around the world, including
conferences in India and China. He's a graduate of Harvard University
and Sarah Lawrence College and has written three children's novels,
all published by Random House.
Richard Hornik
Richard
Hornik retired from his position as executive editor of ASIAWEEK magazine
in Hong Kong in 2001, ending more than two decades of worldwide service
with the publications of Time Inc. He is currently Director of Southeast
Asia Programs for the Independent Journalism Foundation, focusing
on training journalists in Vietnam and Cambodia.
During his career at TIME, he was business editor of its European edition (1998-2000) in London and deputy chief of correspondents and news service director of TIME in New York between 1994-97. Prior to that, Hornik served as TIME’s bureau chief in Warsaw, Boston, Beijing and Hong Kong, and its national economics correspondent in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Overseas Press Club. Hornik co-authored Massacre in Beijing and has written for Foreign Affairs. He has a master's degree in Russian Studies from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree from Brown University.
Barbara Selvin
Barbara Selvin became the first full-time professor in the School of Journalism in January 2007, following seven years as an adjunct in the university’s journalism minor program. She has also taught journalism at Queens College and Hofstra University.
At Stony Brook, Selvin teaches beat reporting and news writing. She created a grammar lab for the school’s introductory reporting class and is developing a quantitative literacy lab that will train journalism students to use numbers authoritatively. She inaugurated the school’s Journalism 24/7 course, which examines the impact of the digital revolution on journalism and journalists.
In 2005, Selvin was recognized as one of the university’s top teachers when she received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching as Part-Time Faculty.
For seven years, Selvin directed a high school summer journalism workshop in the City University of New York system that inspired dozens of students to pursue journalism in college and beyond.
Before she became a journalism educator, Selvin was a reporter for Newsday and New York Newsday. At the New York paper, she covered economic development, commercial real estate and housing and wrote a biweekly real estate column. She spent a year writing about health-care reform, medical research and sexuality for the paper’s health and science desk on Long Island.
After graduating from SUNY-Binghamton with a bachelor’s degree in English, Selvin began her reporting career at weekly newspapers on Long Island. She earned a master’s degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983, where she received the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, and worked for a year at The Advocate in Stamford, Conn., before joining New York Newsday.
Her freelance work has been published in Newsday, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and business and health-care magazines.
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