Expertise

Noah’s research focuses on cross-cultural communication and its mediators, particularly in the Turkish- and Persian-speaking world. His PhD dissertation, currently under revision into a book manuscript, is an ethnography on the roles and strategies of “fixers” who broker communication between foreign journalists and sources in Turkey, demonstrating how they shape the news and manage their ambivalent position between cultural and moral worlds.

Noah is also interested in media production, including documentary film and photography and the use of audiovisual and interactive media to communicate scholarly and policy-relevant ideas. He is currently creating a series of short animated films for the Center for International Media Assistance and IU Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies; in the past he has published mixed media visual/written essays on Afghanistan and Turkey and done multimedia work for music and theater companies Morningside Opera, Wet Ink Ensemble, and Siren Baroque. Noah’s first feature-length documentary, which deals with assistive communication technology and its role in the life of an ALS patient (his mother), is currently in post-production.

 

 

 

 

Communities
Middle Eastern Studies, International Studies
Degrees
MPhil, Columbia University, Sociology, 2015
MA, Columbia University, Sociology, 2013
AB, Princeton University, Public and International Affairs, 2010