Michel Marriott
Professor

Weissman School of Arts & Sciences
Baruch College, CUNY

Phone: 646-312-3971
Room 7-257, Vertical Campus
E-mail: Michel_Marriott@baruch.cuny.edu

For most of the last 20 years, Michel Marriott has been a staff writer at The New York Times. He has covered numerous beats, including New York's City Hall, national education, urban poverty and drug abuse, as well the racial and ethnic conflagrations of the Los Angeles and Miami riots.

Beginning in 1998, Michel began to write exclusively about high-technology for the newspaper's weekly technology section, Circuits, and continues to write about the impact of consumer electronics on American culture. Michel's work has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

A graduate of Morehead State University and Northwestern University (earning a B.A. and M.S. in print journalism, respectively), he began his career as a writer for the Chronicle-Tribune in Marion, Ind., leading to staff positions at The Courier-Journal in his in native Louisville, Ky., The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Daily News and Newsweek magazine.

Michel has also been a contributor to Essence magazine, Esquire, Vibe and African Voices. In 2001, he was awarded a Nieman Foundation fellowship, permitting him to study at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the academic year 2001-2002.

In the spring, Michel's first novel, The Skull Cage Key, is scheduled for publication by Agate Press in Evanston, Ill.

Before joining Baruch College, Michel had been a longtime adjunct professor of journalism at City College and Columbia University, as well as a frequent instructor at the Antioch Writers' Summer Workshop, the Antioch Writing Institution and the Frederick Douglass Center for the Creative Arts.