Maggie Jones
- Visiting Assistant Professor
Maggie Jones is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. She writes about a wide range of social issues, including youth, immigration, sex, race, gender, and death rituals. She has reported from Japan, Thailand, South Korea, Myanmar, and Guatemala, as well as throughout the United States. She has written for The NYT Book Review, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Smithsonian, The Guardian, Slate, Salon, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications.
She was a finalist for the National Magazine Award, a 2012 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a 2014 Senior Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma at Columbia University.
Representative Publications
Read How Do You Maintain Dignity for the Dead in a Pandemic?
Read The Movement to Bring Death Closer
Listen to Maggie on The Daily.
Read What Teenagers are Learning from Online Porn – the most read New York Times Magazine article in 2018.
Read The Secrets in Guatemala’s Bones
Read Why A Generation of Adoptees is Returning to South Korea