Press Herald journalist to move new ‘nationhood lab’ at Salve Regina

Portland Press Herald reporter Colin Woodard has been appointed to guide a mission at Salve Regina College inspecting America’s identification.

Press Herald reporter Colin Woodard is taking a sabbatical from the paper as he leads the launch of a “nationhood lab” at Salve Regina College.

Woodard is on sabbatical for a yr because the paper’s state and nationwide affairs reporter and can return to the Press Herald in 2024.

Woodard, a New York Occasions best-selling creator, historian and award-winning journalist, will lead the brand new program at Salve Regina’s Pell Middle for Worldwide Relations and Public Coverage in Newport, Rhode Island.

The lab will search to “articulate a narrative of America’s nationwide identification that helps bind the union collectively within the twenty first century,” the college stated in a press release.

The Nationhood Lab, in response to the assertion, will embody an information journalism web site the place Woodard and different authors will mirror on divisions in American society and what may be executed to bind them; a story mission to develop a brand new story of American civic nationalism; and efforts to share that story to assist handle divisiveness in American public life.

Woodard was a visiting senior fellow on the Pell Middle final yr and is the creator of six books, together with “American Nations: A Historical past of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America” and “Union: The Wrestle to Forge the Story of United Nations Nationhood.” As a reporter with the Press Herald, he acquired a George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

He’s a graduate of Tufts College and the College of Chicago and a previous Pew Fellow in Worldwide Journalism on the Johns Hopkins College Faculty for Superior Worldwide Research.

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