Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dave Marcus will live and teach at Deerfield for a year starting in September. Mr. Marcus, who has reported from more than forty countries, has been appointed the Wallace Wilson Fellow for 2003-2004.

In a two-decade career, Mr. Marcus has been an education writer at US News & World Report, the diplomatic correspondent at The Boston Globe, a foreign correspondent at The Dallas Morning News, and a columnist and reporter at The Miami Herald. He is finishing work on a nonfiction book about American teenagers, to be published by Houghton Mifflin next year. As part of the research, he volunteered as a teacher at a school in Western Massachusetts and found he enjoyed teaching. "I hope to push Deerfield students to think critically and write with passion," he said.

Mr. Marcus covered the breakup of the Soviet Union, the US military invasion of Panama, the Gulf War, the return of Hong Kong to China, and civil wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Angola. For his work on a series about violence against women in Latin America, he shared the 1994 Pulitzer for International Reporting.

A graduate of Brown University, Mr. Marcus studied at the University of the Andes in Colombia and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has been a guest lecturer at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts. His freelance articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair and GQ magazine.

He will bring his extensive experience to The Scroll, where he will serve as faculty advisor. "In a time when the distinction is blurred between news and commentary, students need to know the importance of rigorous, impartial journalism" he said.