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Andrew Meier (born XX, 1963) is an American journalist, author, and educator. Drawing on his years as an award-winning foreign correspondent, he has published three works of reportage on Soviet and Russian history. A co-founder of the Journalism+Design program at The New School in New York City, Meier is currently Chair of the undergraduate department.

Early life and family
Meier was born in Stanford, California. After graduating from the Lawrenceville School in 1981 and Wesleyan University in 1985, Meier earned a second BA (MA) in Russian Language & Literature at Oxford University in 1989. He also studied in Russia, at the Moscow Institute of Steel & Alloys (formerly "in the name of Stalin").

He is married to the photographer, Mia Foster. They have two children and live in Brooklyn.

Career in Russia
Meier began his journalism career as a stringer in Moscow during the last years of the USSR. His articles appeared in XX and XX. In 1996, he was awarded a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation to report from the war zones of the ex-USSR and Afghanistan. From 1996 to 2001, Meier was based in Moscow. As a staff correspondent for TIME, he covered Russia and the former Soviet states of the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Post-Russian Career
Meier is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, where he has written on U.S. and foreign affairs. His work has also appeared in numerous national and international publications, including Harper’s, National Geographic, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Outside, The Washington Post, and Wired.

A commentator on the BBC, CNN, and NPR, he has also reported and written for PBS documentaries, including a Bill Moyers Special on 9/11.

Published books
Meier has published two books of nonfiction: "Black Earth" is a history of Russia’s first post-Soviet decade, as told by way of a travelogue. "The Lost Spy" is part history, part detective story--a biography of Isaiah "Cy" Oggins, a 1920s American Communist turned Soviet spy. In 1947, after eight years in the Gulag, Oggins was "liquidated"--murdered in Moscow, by lethal injection, on Stalin's personal orders. Both books were named to numerous Best-Books-of-the-Year lists, including those of The New York Public Library, NPR, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Times Literary Supplement. "Black Earth" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently at work on a biography of the Morgenthau family (to be published by Random House), a history spanning four generations and the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.

Awards and Honors
Meier has received numerous awards. These include: Leon Levy Center for Biography (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellow (Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers & Scholars at the New York Public Library) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow Visiting Fellow (Kluge Center, The Library of Congress) Visiting Fellow (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow

Professional Affiliations
The Authors Guild The Paul Klebnikov Fund (Harriman Institute, Columbia University)