About
Kevin Sack is a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, affiliated with the Humanities Council. A veteran journalist with over four decades of experience, he has written extensively on national affairs and race in America for publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, sharing in three Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting.
Education:
- Duke University
His work centers on race relations, narrative nonfiction, and American social history, exploring how storytelling shapes understanding of complex societal issues. He teaches the course "America’s Racial Narrative: Approaches to Telling the Story," guiding students through diverse nonfiction writing genres using race relations as a thematic framework.
Scientific awards and honors:
- Pulitzer Prize (3 times, including National Reporting for the 2000 series "How Race Is Lived in America")
- Emerson Collective Fellow (2019)
Sack spent thirty years as a staff reporter at The New York Times, specializing in long-form investigative narratives. His forthcoming book "Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church" (Crown, June 3, 2025) examines the history of the Charleston AME church leading up to the 2015 massacre. At Princeton, he mentors students in ethical storytelling techniques while continuing his journalistic work on racial justice themes.
