Brian Goldstone is a journalist, anthropologist, and 2021 National Fellow at New America. He is writing a book about the crisis of housing insecurity in U.S. cities and the rise of the “working homeless.” The book will be published by Crown.

His long-form reporting and essays have appeared in Harper's, The New Republic, The California Sunday Magazine, Guernica, Jacobin, and Public Books. He has written about mental health in Ghana, life after incarceration, the plight of chronic pain sufferers during an opioid epidemic, Israel's secretive campaign to deport African asylum seekers, and, most recently, homelessness and housing precarity. He is co-editor of African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility. In 2019, he co-organized the symposium “Uncertain States: Narrative Journalism and Its Limits” at the Columbia School of Journalism.

Brian received his PhD in anthropology from Duke University in 2012. He is the Director of In the Press, a journalism and public humanities initiative at Duke’s Franklin Humanities Institute. In 2017-2018, he was a Luce/ACLS Fellow in Journalism, Religion & International Affairs; prior to this, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from Fulbright, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2015-2016, as a Justice-in-Education Fellow at Columbia, he taught at Sing Sing prison.