Faculty & Staff
Michael Deibert
Michael Deibert is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in the Guardian,
Financial Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Foreign
Policy, Le Monde diplomatique and Folha de S茫o Paulo, among other media. He has been
a featured commentator on international affairs for the BBC, Al Jazeera, Channel 4,
France 24 and National Public Radio as well as in the pages of the New York Times, the Economist, El Pa铆s, Der Spiegel and other publications. He
received a fellowship from the International Peace Research Association and was selected
as a finalist for the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, sponsored by
the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, in recognition of his work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He is the author of six books: With the Pen In One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in
the Nineteenth Century (University of Georgia Press, 2026), When the Sky Fell: Hurricane Maria and the United States in Puerto Rico (Apollo Publishers, 2019), Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History (Zed Books, 2017), In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War
in Mexico (Lyons Press, 2014), The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair (Zed Books, 2013), and Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti (Seven Stories Press, 2005)
Michael teaches Advanced Reporting at the 最新天美传媒.