Earned and Honorary Degrees
BA Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MIA Columbia University, New York
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Northland College
Background
Peter Annin is the director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation and the author of The Great Lakes Water Wars, the definitive work on the Great Lakes water diversion controversy. Before coming to Northland College in 2015, Peter served as a reporter at Newsweek, the associate director of the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, and the managing director of the University of Notre Dame’s Environmental Change Initiative. He continues to report on the Great Lakes water diversion issue and published the second edition of the Great Lakes Water Wars in the fall of 2018.
Courses
The Great Lakes Water Wars, IDS-248 (winter term)
News Writing and Reporting, WRI-224 (winter term)
Interests
Since 2004 Annin has served as the volunteer executive director of Gull Rock Lightkeepers, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring Gull Rock Lighthouse, a storied Lake Superior light two and a half miles off Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.
