Associate Professor
Department: School of Journalism
University System: University of Montana - Missoula
Website(s): http://jour.umt.edu/about/faculty/?ID=2326
Professional Summary:
Associate Professor Nadia White joined the faculty in 2006 after a career in newspaper journalism that included work throughout the West and in Washington, D.C. She is the Director of the Master's Program in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism in the School of Journalism.
She specializes in environmental and public affairs journalism and teaches courses in science journalism, global current events, and reporting. She is the director of UM's master's program in environmental science and natural resource journalism.
Nadia graduated from Bates College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a concentration in Asian literature. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Before coming to UM, Nadia reported for Maine’s Lewiston Sun, Minnesota’s Stillwater Gazette and the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo. She was a reporter and editor at the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming and in the paper’s Washington, D.C., bureau.
Nadia has received several awards for her reporting and writing, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award of Excellence for work on brucellosis in central Asia; the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Best Columnist of the Year Award; and several Associated Press Public Service awards.
She received a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado in 2004-05 and a World Affairs Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists in Washington, D.C., in 2003.