Her research and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, NPR, Newsweek Japan, Jezebel, and The Daily Beast, among others.įor our Institute Biz was a stellar leader of Exposure, our human rights and photojournalism initiative. She was an outstanding student in EPIIC’s Global Poverty and Inequality. in Political Science and Economics in 2010. The images and writing from the project were published as a New York Times book, “ Women of the 116th Congress: Portraits of Power” in October 2019 with ABRAMS Books.īiz graduated from Tufts University with Highest Thesis Honors and a B.A. The project ran as its own 16-page special section in the paper, printed with 27 different covers, each featuring a different local woman member of Congress that varied depending on where that version of the paper was printed and distributed. Recently, she pitched, co-produced, co-photographed, and wrote the “ Women of the 116th Congress,” a special project for The New York Times that features portraits of 130 out of the 131 women serving in the 116th Congress shot in the style of historical portrait paintings. In additional to working on her Ph.D., Biz currently works as a freelance photojournalist, including as a regular contributor to The New York Times. She also serves as a journalism and documentary filmmaking instructor at NuVu Studio teaching intensive, hands-on workshops to middle school and high school students in Boston, MA and Mumbai, India. Since 2016, Biz has been an Innovation Fellow at Beyond Conflict’s Innovation Lab, which works to apply research from cognitive and behavioral science to reduce social conflict and foster reconciliation. Her ongoing project, A Woman’s War, is an oral history and documentary photography project examining the lives of women who have served in conflict worldwide the work spans six countries on four continents and includes over 100 women. Upon returning to the U.S., she worked for as a freelance photo and written journalist for a number of national and international news outlets, based in New York and reporting from both home and abroad. She spent 2011 in Bangladesh as a Fulbright Fellow, researching how politics influence the writing of national histories in textbooks. Her research interests also include the politics of history and national identity her Masters Thesis focused on representations of 9/11 in high school history textbooks worldwide. Her dissertation research examines the ways in which trauma impacts intergroup relations and political participation, and she is broadly interested in examining the psychological and physiological consequences of conflict impact reconciliation. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Biz Herman is a photojournalist, researcher, and writer based in New York City, currently pursuing a Ph.D.