Evan Cornog

Evan Cornog

Prior to becoming associate dean for academic affairs, Evan was the executive administrator of the Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography, associate dean for policy and development, and associate dean for planning. Before coming to the journalism school, he was a fact checker and a book reviewer at The New Yorker, and served as deputy press secretary and press secretary to Mayor Edward I. Koch of New York City, and was the politics editor at Wigwag magazine.

He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Wigwag, The American Scholar, Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, the Daily News, and the Lancet, as well as for historical journals. He is the author of, The Power and the Story: How the Crafted Presidential Narrative has Determined Political Success from George Washington to George W. Bush (2004); Hats in the Ring: An Illustrated History of American Presidential Campaigns [with Richard Whelan] (2000); The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828 (1998). Evan received a B.A. at Harvard and a Ph.D.at Columbia.