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'''Liza Featherstone''' (born April 21, 1969) is an [[Americans|American]] [[journalist]] and journalism professor who writes frequently on [[Labour movement|labor]] and [[student activism]] for ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]''.
'''Liza Featherstone''' (born April 21, 1969) is an [[Americans|American]] [[journalist]] and journalism professor who writes frequently on [[Labour movement|labor]] and [[student activism]] for ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]'' and ''[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]]''.


Featherstone was born in [[Washington, D.C.]] but grew up in [[Greater Boston]]. She graduated with honors from the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]] in 1991 and graduated from the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] in 2008. Featherstone was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia for 2007-08.<ref>[http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes Knight-Bagehot Fellows of 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331224719/http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes |date=2012-03-31 }}</ref> From 2013–2015 she held the Belle Zeller visiting chair in public policy at Brooklyn College.<ref>[http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_131101.php Brooklyn College press release on Zeller chair]</ref> She currently teaches at NYU<ref name=nyu/> and Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.<ref>[https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/liza-featherstone-0 Columbia SIPA]</ref>
Featherstone was born in [[Washington, D.C.]] but grew up in [[Greater Boston]]. She graduated with honors from the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]] in 1991 and graduated from the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] in 2008. Featherstone was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia for 2007-08.<ref>[http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes Knight-Bagehot Fellows of 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331224719/http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/academic_programs/knight-bagehot/fellows2007.asp?printerfriendly=yes |date=2012-03-31 }}</ref> From 2013–2015 she held the Belle Zeller visiting chair in public policy at Brooklyn College.<ref>[http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_131101.php Brooklyn College press release on Zeller chair]</ref> She currently teaches at NYU<ref name=nyu/> and Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.<ref>[https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/liza-featherstone-0 Columbia SIPA]</ref>
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* [http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/liza-featherstone/ NYU journalism faculty profile]
* [http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/liza-featherstone/ NYU journalism faculty profile]
* [http://www.thenation.com/authors/liza-featherstone Index of articles at ''The Nation'']
* [http://www.thenation.com/authors/liza-featherstone Index of articles at ''The Nation'']
* [http://https://jacobinmag.com/author/liza-featherstone Index of articles at ''Jacobin'']
* [http://www.alternet.org/authors/890/ Index of articles at Alternet]
* [http://www.alternet.org/authors/890/ Index of articles at Alternet]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17647 Simon Head's review of ''Selling Women Short'']
* [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17647 Simon Head's review of ''Selling Women Short'']

Revision as of 16:03, 29 April 2019

Liza Featherstone
Born (1969-04-21) April 21, 1969 (age 55)
Washington, D.C., United States
EducationUniversity of Michigan (1991)
Columbia University (2008)
Occupation(s)Journalist, Writer, Teacher
Years active1992–present
SpouseDoug Henwood

Liza Featherstone (born April 21, 1969) is an American journalist and journalism professor who writes frequently on labor and student activism for The Nation and Jacobin.

Featherstone was born in Washington, D.C. but grew up in Greater Boston. She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1991 and graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2008. Featherstone was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia for 2007-08.[1] From 2013–2015 she held the Belle Zeller visiting chair in public policy at Brooklyn College.[2] She currently teaches at NYU[3] and Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.[4]

Featherstone's writing has also appeared in Lingua Franca, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Left Business Observer, Dissent, Sydney Morning Herald, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, In These Times, Ms., Salon.com, Nerve, Us, Nylon, and Rolling Stone.[3]

Featherstone has also written several books. She is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation published by OR Books, a popular history of the focus group that also situates it in a political context and examines its relationship to democracy.[5] Featherstone is also the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement (2002). In 2004, she published Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart, a history of Dukes vs. Wal-Mart, the largest civil rights class-action suit in history.

Family

Featherstone lives in Brooklyn and is married to economics journalist Doug Henwood. They have a son, Ivan.[citation needed]

Books

  • Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (2002) ISBN 0-465-02315-0
  • False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton (2016) ISBN 1784784613
  • Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation (2017) ISBN 978-1-682191-06-4

References

  1. ^ Knight-Bagehot Fellows of 2007 Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Brooklyn College press release on Zeller chair
  3. ^ a b NYU faculty profile
  4. ^ Columbia SIPA
  5. ^ "OR Books". Retrieved 25 October 2018.
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