Faculty

Sylvia Nasar

John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism

Professor Nasar has worked as a research scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis (1977-80) and an economist for the Scientists Institute for Public Information and Control Data Corporation (1981-82).

Her writing has appeared in Fortune magazine (1983-89), U.S. News & World Report (1990) as a columnist, and The New York Times (1991-99). She haqs also held the following academic positions: Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation (2006-7), DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, (2006), Visiting Artist at Yaddo (2005), Director's Visitor at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002-3 and 1995-96); and Visiting Fellow at Kings and Churchill Colleges, Cambridge University (2000).

She is the co-editor of The Essential John Nash and author of A Beautiful Mind, winner of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Grand Pursuit (in progress). She has served as a judge for the National Book Award, Anthony Lucas Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award.

Nasar received her B.A. from Antioch College (1970) and her M.A. from New York University (1976).