Nicholas Lemann is Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus at Columbia Journalism School. Lemann worked at the Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, and at The New Yorker, as staff writer and then Washington correspondent before becoming dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University from 2003 to 2013. Lemann continues to contribute to The New Yorker as a staff writer. He has published five books, most recently “Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War” (2006); “The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy” (1999), which helped lead to a major reform of the SAT; and “The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America” (1991), which won several book prizes. He has written widely for such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and Slate; worked in documentary television with Blackside, Inc., “FRONTLINE,” the Discovery Channel, and the BBC; and lectured at many universities.Lemann serves on the boards of directors of the Authors Guild, the National Academy of Sciences’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and the Academy of Political Science, and is a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities. He was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April, 2010.