Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalism Professor Gives Papers to U. of I. Library
October 25, 2005
Champaign - An author and Pulitzer-prize winning journalist has given his professional papers to the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Leon DeCosta Dash Jr., who covered war, urban poverty and teenage childbearing for The Washington Post, is a professor of journalism, a Center for Advanced Study Professor, and a Swanlund Professor at Illinois. He teaches courses on “immersion journalism,” a method he is credited with creating.
Dash’s papers include correspondence; photographs; interview transcripts; recordings; course and workshop materials; and reference materials related to his career with the newspaper and his time in the Peace Corps. The papers are in the University Archives, Room 19 of the University Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana.
Two free public events on Oct. 27 will celebrate the opening of Pulitzer Prize-winner Leon Dash's papers at the U. of I. Library: an informal reception at 6 p.m. in the Marshall Gallery of the University Library, with comments by Paula Kaufman, University Librarian; Ronald Yates, dean of the College of Communications; and Jesse Delia, provost; and a 7:30 p.m. Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lecture by Nicholas Lemann in Room 100, Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana. Lemann is the Henry R. Luce Professor and dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. His topic will be “Journalism and Social Justice.”
In addition to these events, an exhibition of Dash’s papers is running through November in the University Library.
source: University of Illinois News Bureau (more)