{"id":21687,"date":"2020-06-16T16:05:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/fellow\/annie-murphy-paul\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:47:50","slug":"annie-murphy-paul","status":"publish","type":"fellow","link":"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/fellows\/learning-sciences-exchange-fellowship-en\/annie-murphy-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Murphy Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author who contributes to&nbsp;<em>Scientific American<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>, the <em>Washington Post<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Time<\/em>&nbsp;magazine, and&nbsp;<em>Slate<\/em>. Paul is the author of two books,&nbsp;<em>The&nbsp;Cult&nbsp;of&nbsp;Personality<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Origins<\/em>, a&nbsp;<em>New York Times <\/em>Notable Book. 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A graduate of Yale College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Paul has been awarded the Rosalyn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University, and the Bernard Schwartz Fellowship at New America; she is currently a Future Tense Fellow at New America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21675,"template":"","class_list":["post-21687","fellow","type-fellow","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fellows_category-learning-sciences-exchange-fellowship-en","fellows_cohort-2020-2022"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Annie Murphy Paul - Jacobs Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/fellows\/learning-sciences-exchange-fellowship-en\/annie-murphy-paul\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Annie Murphy Paul - Jacobs Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author who contributes to&nbsp;Scientific American,&nbsp;The New York Times, the Washington Post,&nbsp;Time&nbsp;magazine, and&nbsp;Slate. 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