in residence March, 2024:

Ann Neumann

^{Reporting for The Guardian, on consent, brain death, and organ donation in California, 2023}

Ann Neumann is a writer and journalist whose work explores the intersections of death, grief, culture, and society. She is the author of The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America and a contributor to several books, including the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook on the Anthropology of Death. Her reporting spans a wide range of global and domestic issues, from the Tigray war in Ethiopia and water conflicts in the Horn of Africa to brain death, organ donation, and Covid-19 in U.S. nursing homes, with her work appearing in The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Baffler, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

Neumann also wrote and voiced the award-winning animated documentary Shame on You!, produced by The Debt Collection Lab and Princeton University’s VizE Lab, and served as editor-in-chief of The Revealer at NYU’s Center for Religion and Media, where she wrote the monthly column “The Patient Body” on religion, medicine, and the human experience. A former contributing editor for Guernica magazine, her reporting has been supported by the Pulitzer Center, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and the Knight Grant for Reporting on Religion in American Public Life. She is currently working on a new book examining grief and empire.