Mitchell Zuckoff Is Inaugural Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies
Mitchell Zuckoff, former Boston Globe reporter, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of the New York Times best sellers 13 Hours, Frozen in Time, and Lost in Shangri-La, is the new Sumner M. Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies. Photo by Cydney Scott
COM professor will promote storytelling in new post
Best-selling author and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff has made a living writing page-turning books based on real-life events like harrowing plane crashes and a minute-by-minute account of the 2012 Islamic militant attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Critics have pointed to the former Boston Globe writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist’s work as first-rate examples of narrative nonfiction.
Zuckoff, a College of Communication professor of journalism since 2003, will now be imparting his narrative storytelling skills to future journalists as the inaugural Sumner M. Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies. The new professorship, made possible by a $2.5 million gift from Viacom and CBS chair Sumner Redstone (Hon.’94), a former School of Law faculty member and longtime BU benefactor, is endowed in perpetuity to support a senior COM faculty member with scholarly and teaching expertise in the field of narrative studies.
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