Fellows & Editors

 

Tara McKelvey

Trip:
Fellows Fall 2009
Affiliation:
American Prospect
Country:
Russia
Year:
2009

Tara McKelvey is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, a senior editor at The American Prospect, and author of Monstering: Inside America's Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War, which former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski has described as "a shocker...an indictment of an administration in which no senior official has been held accountable.” She was a 2006 research fellow at NYU Law School’s Center on Law and Security, a 2007 Ochberg Fellow (Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma), a 2008 Hoover Media Fellow (Stanford University), and a Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and Religion (University of Cambridge). She has a AB in Government from Georgetown University.

Post-IRP Stories

Stories

  • A New Start

    by McKelvey, Tara | April 28, 2010

    For decades no one could enter or leave Elektrostal without the permission of the Soviet security services. After World War II, the city (whose name means "electric steel") had been chosen as...

  • Evasive Maneuvers: IRP Fellow Reports from “Kidnapping School”

    by McKelvey, Tara | September 30, 2009

    How do you dress for an abduction? That was the question on my mind as I prepared for my first day of kidnapping school--or, as it is officially known, Centurion Risk Assessment...

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