Co-founder of the Global Media Project
John Phillip Santos is a visiting fellow
at the Watson Institute for International Studies. At the Institute, he works with
Global Security Program Director James Der Derian on the Global Media
Project. Santos is an author and media producer, most recently as a
Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, where he worked
on The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire (Viking/Penquin,
2005) and the development of Teletopia Labs, a production workshop for
documentary media performances. Before that, he held various positions
in media, including stints as a producer at CBS and PBS.
Santos
received his BA in philosophy and literature from the University of
Notre Dame and his MA in English literature and language as a Rhodes
Scholar at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. He is the author
of Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, published
by Viking/Penquin in 1999, which was a National Book Award finalist in
nonfiction. Santos also was an Emmy nominee in 1988 for "From the AIDS
Experience: Part I, Our Spirits to Heal/ Part II, Our Humanity to Heal," and in 1985 for "Exiles Who Never Leave Home."
