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Colin Woodard
Affiliation during program: Freelance
Country Focus: Micronesia/Marshall Islands

Program: Fall 1999
www.colinwoodard.com
Colin Woodard, an author and award-winning journalist, is a correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor and a contributing editor at Down East magazine. A native of Maine, he has reported from fifty foreign countries and six continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of Communism and the Balkan wars. His work has appeared in The Economist, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Miami Herald, The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Prospect, On Earth and dozens of other publications. He is the author of The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down (Harcourt, 2007), Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas (Basic, 2000), a narrative non-fiction account of the deterioration of the world's oceans, and The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier (Viking, 2004), a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine. He has a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.A. in international realtions from the University of Chicago. He currently teaches the narrative journalism program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, where he lives.

 

Stories
· Generations of Fallout From Nuclear Tests / Marshall Islands Residents Still Waiting for U.S. to Clean Up Its Mess
· South Pacific Battles for Y2K Bragging Rights
· America's Half-Forgotten Islands
· Islands Seek More Pay for Missile Tests
· Pacific Islands Renegotiate U.S. Payments
· 'Jaws': The New Cause of the Seas
· Japanese 'Ghost Fleet' Sinking - Again
· Island Mulls Showcasing Rusting Land Relics
· Payback time
· Crazed for Kava

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