Michael Meyer

 Pitt Faculty Member - Michael Meyer, the author of the acclaimed nonfiction books The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed and In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian, Slate, Architectural Record, the Chicago Tribune, the Iowa Review, on This American Life, and in many other outlets. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer to China, and has represented the National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations there. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award, and residencies at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy. He is a current fellow of the National Committee on United States-China Relations‘ Public Intellectuals Program and affiliated faculty with Pitt's Asian Studies Center.

 

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