Joshua Yaffa

Joshua Yaffa is the inaugural Writer in Residence at Bard College Berlin for Academic Years 2023-2025. He is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, where he covers Russian, Ukraine, and security and political issues in Europe. He is also the author of "Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia," which won the Orwell Prize in 2021. Previously, Yaffa held fellowships at New America and The American Academy in Berlin, and has written for The Economist, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and Foreign Affairs. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and holds master’s degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University, where he was a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute and taught at the journalism school for several years.  

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