Welcome to my college writing portfolio! I am Marc Novicoff, a young journalist and recent graduate of Dartmouth College, where I majored in History and Economics. This site is where you can find basically everything I wrote during college!
To my knowledge, this page will be frozen in time around August 2023, which means at some point, I'll have to get my own website, but that point hasn't come yet. Right now, I am an editorial intern at POLITICO, where I work on the magazine team.
From September 2020 to June 2021, I took a gap year off school to avoid online classes and pursue some work interests. During most of this gap year, I worked for Matt Yglesias at Slow Boring, a popular American politics blog hosted on Substack. On this website, you can find my academic writing, but if you'd like to read what I wrote during my gap year, here's my farewell post at Slow Boring, which links to my other 4 pieces. Last fall, I also started my own blog called Marc's Take, hosted by Substack, which you can find here.
I have done a great deal of academic research at Dartmouth. During sophomore year, I worked as a research assistant for Professor Colin G Calloway, funded through the Sophomore Research Scholars program, studying the interconnected lives of Scotch-Irish and Indigenous people on the 18th century American frontier. I also worked for Professor Eric Edmonds through the Dartmouth Economic Research Scholars program and funded by the James O. Freedman Presidential Scholars program. In addition, I was on the executive board of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Research Association, organizing outreach in the undergraduate research community, from symposia to tabling to catered dinners.
Outside of my academic interests, I love playing sports; I was Captain of the club soccer B team; I played on the club table tennis team; and I played intramural sports multiple times in my Dartmouth career, in addition to the random sports I played with friends.
I also worked in community service in my capacity as a mentor for DREAM, a program for local children living in low-income housing communities in Eastern Vermont.
Lastly, I was the editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Political Times (my author page).
Thanks for reading!
Now you can read more by clicking on the chronologically organized tabs above or if you're looking for my writings on a specific topic, click here to get to a sorted page of my essays.
If you don't know where to start, here are some recommendations!
If you want something involved with data analysis, read a research paper I co-wrote about how being the 'dumbest' one in your family (as measured by the Armed Forces Qualification Test) is actually linked to making more money. Another good data analysis is in a co-written paper about cookie consumption at Dartmouth as it intersects with gender, age, greek affiliation, and other factors. Or if you're after something even more technical, check out my paper on who took COVID-19 precautions in The Gambia.
If you want even shorter policy-type writing, read my three policy memos on how to help end extreme poverty, which are on pharmaceutical research, universal basic income, and congressional compensation. Or read my politics blog!
I have also written papers about sports, early American history, African and Middle-Eastern history, Korean history, philosophy, and African religions. I even wrote a short true crime paper about the Wonderland murders of 1981!
If you're interested in sports and you'd like to read my piece nominated for the Dickerson Prize in First-Year Writing, that is here. It is about marijuana policy in the NFL, NBA, and MLB and the right way forward.
If you have come here from my political writing and would like something more longform, here's an essay on why, and exactly how, California Proposition 16 (aiming to reinstitute public affirmative action) failed.
If none of those routes pique your interest, I would recommend navigating the site by first clicking on a term of your choice, Freshman Fall, Winter, etc, then clicking on an interesting class. Each page about each class contains a list of the essays and what they're about.
If you want to hire me or just talk or something, you can find me at marcnovicoff@gmail.com or my LinkedIn.