Nathan Schneider
| Nathan Schneider | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 33–34) |
| Residence | Boulder, Colorado |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brown University, University of California - Santa Barbara, H-B Woodlawn |
| Occupation | writer and professor |
| Employer | University of Colorado Boulder, College Of Media, Communications And Information |
| Known for | Platform cooperativism, covering Occupy Wall Street |
| Website | nathanschneider |
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Nathan Schneider (born 1984) is a journalist and author who covers social movements in the United States. Since 2015, he has been a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Much of Schneider's early work concerned the interrelation of religion, science, and politics. He has written investigative articles on the John Templeton Foundation for The Nation and The Chronicle of Higher Education. With the support of a Knight Grant for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life through USC's Annenberg School, he did extensive reporting on the evangelical Christian philosopher and debater William Lane Craig, which resulted in articles that appeared in Commonweal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Killing the Buddha.
His first book, God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet is a history of proofs for and against the existence of God, as well as a memoir of his own conversion to Catholicism as a teenager. A starred review in Booklist said, "Schneider makes an often dry subject quite companionable." In Religion Dispatches, Gordon Haber wrote, "Schneider defines the next generation of public intellectuals—fiercely articulate, indefatigably curious and Internet-savvy."
Schneider's writing on religion often deals with neglected traditions of political radicalism. Schneider's profile of literary critic Elaine Scarry for The Chronicle of Higher Education, for instance, compared her scholarship with the religious anti-nuclear movement. In 2014 Al Jazeera America published his story of a Catholic nun with a secret ministry to the transgender community, which was applauded by Buzzfeed and The Advocate.
In 2014, he was named a columnist for America, a national Catholic weekly.
Schneider was among the first journalists to cover the Occupy Wall Street movement during its planning stages and wrote about it for Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New York Times, and other publications, as well as in his 2013 book Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse, published by University of California Press. He claims that his coverage of Occupy Wall Street served as the basis for a scene about Occupy Wall Street in HBO's The Newsroom. His early articles about the movement appeared in a briefing sent to analysts at the security company Stratfor, which was released by as part of its "Global Intelligence Files."Democracy Now! regularly turned to him as a correspondent about the movement, and he also appeared on NPR's The Brian Lehrer Show, Al Jazeera's Inside Story, and an oral history of the movement by Vanity Fair, and Ezra Klein of The Washington Post referred to one of his articles as "the single best place to start" learning about the movement. Interviews with Schneider appear in two of the feature films made about the movement, American Autumn and 99%. Writer Rebecca Solnit wrote the foreword to Thank You, Anarchy, which was adapted into an article for the Los Angeles Times.
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