Alice Driver
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Dr. Alice Driver is a James Beard Award-winning investigative journalist and public speaker from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is the author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company (One Signal Publishers, 2024). In 2024, the book won the Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. In 2025, the book was a finalist for the Brooklyn Library Prize alongside books by Pulitzer Prize-winner Mosab Abu Toha and Windham Campbell Prize-winner Alexis Pauline Gumbs. In 2026, the book will be published in Italian by Ferrobedò. In her work and writing, Driver focuses on the American food system, immigration, and unjust labor practices. In 2025, Driver attended The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Residency, whose former residents include Maya Angelou and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Driver holds a Ph.D. (2011) and an MA (2008) in Hispanic Studies from the University of Kentucky and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. She studied Spanish and Portuguese at Middlebury College Language Schools.
Dr. Alice Driver a holds Ph.D.(2011) and MA (2008) in Hispanic Studies from the University of Kentucky and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. She studied Spanish and Portuguese at Middlebury College Language Schools. She holds a B.A. in Spanish and English from Berea College.
Alice Driver is a Journalist-in-Residence at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. She works as an investigative journalist at The Beam, a publication focused on education in Arizona. The Beam is a part of a $5.7 million grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation to expand the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and significantly grow its impact at the local, regional, and national levels.
The funding will launch a suite of major new initiatives, including a statewide accountability reporting effort called The Beam, a national Inclusive Excellence in Journalism Fellowship, and an expansion of Cronkite’s investigative curriculum, graduate training and newsroom partnerships.
BOOKS
The Life and Death of the American Worker. One Signal, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. 2024.
More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico. University of Arizona Press. March 2015.
BOOK TRANSLATIONS
Cardona, Julián. Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon. Trans. Alice Driver. The University of Texas Press. 2022.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 541 | Narrative Writing & Reporting |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| JMC 470 | Depth Reporting |
| MCO 505 | Depth Reporting |