Istanbul Faculty

Mary D’Ambrosio (Reporting) the founding editor of Big World Magazine, teaches journalism at Columbia University and New York University. A writer specializing in international issues, she has reported from the U.K., Turkey, Italy and Latin America. She was an editor at Global Finance magazine in New York, a reporter for the Associated Press in Venezuela and a correspondent and book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Other credits include Islands, Institutional Investor, Working Woman, Working Mother, Newsday and the Miami Herald. D’Ambrosio directed the NYU journalism institute’s feature syndicate, which placed student stories in professional venues, such as The Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Daily Beast, Worldpress and CNN. She holds a B.S. in magazine journalism from Syracuse University, and an M.Sc. in economic history from the London School of Economics. She serves on the editorial board of Abroad View, a national magazine to foster global education. She edited ieiMedia’s Urbino Now magazine in 2010 and directs the Istanbul program.

Suzy Hansen (reporting) is a freelance writer who has lived in Istanbul for four years. She has written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, GQ, the New York Times, and many other publications. In 2007, she was the recipient of an Institute of Current World Affairs writing fellowship. Before moving to Istanbul, she was an editor at the New York Observer and Salon.

Kurt Lancaster (Multimedia/Video) is the author of DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Video (Focal Press, 2011) and Video Journalism for the Web: A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling (Routledge, 2012). He teaches digital filmmaking and multimedia journalism at Northern Arizona University’s School of Communication. His documentary work has appeared at national and international film festivals, as well as in the Pulitzer Prize winning paper, The Christian Science Monitor, where he formerly worked as a consultant training print reporters to shoot video. Kurt earned his PhD in performance studies from New York University.

Scot Tucker (Photojournalism) is a photographer and picture editor in San Francisco. He is the co-founder of SFBay.ca, a local news aggregation website covering news throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been a lecturer in the journalism department at San Francisco State University, teaching photojournalism and multimedia, since 2005. He has worked as a staff photographer and picture editor for The Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Napa Valley Register, San Mateo County Times and the San Francisco Examiner. He received a B.A. in journalism, and a master’s degree in instructional technology, from San Francisco State University.