Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979) is an American staff writer for The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale University.[1] He was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations[2] and won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.[3]
Graeme Wood | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 21, 1979 |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | Official Website |
Early life and education
editWood was born on August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota, to John Kenneth Wood and Louise Ann Kwan.[4] He grew up in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1997.[5] He spent a year studying Arabic Language at American University in Cairo, and also studied central Asian languages at Indiana University and Deep Springs College before transferring to Harvard College to study African-American Studies and Philosophy, graduating in 2001.[6]
Career
editWood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and was a contributing editor beforehand.[7] He has also written for The Cambodia Daily,[8] The New Yorker,[9] The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Culture+Travel, The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. He served as books editor of Pacific Standard.[8]
He has been a lecturer in political science at Yale University since 2014.[1]
Wood was awarded the 2015–2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations.[2] Prior, he had also been awarded a 2009 Reporting Fellowship Grant from the South Asian Journalists Association[10] and fellowships from the Social Sciences Research Council (2002-2003), the East–West Center (2009-2010), and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for the Prevention of Genocide (2013-2014).[11] He was a 2018 visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.[11]
In 2017, Wood won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction, which he was eligible for due to holding Canadian citizenship,[12] for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Graeme Wood | Department of Political Science". Department of Political Science. Yale. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ a b "Historical Roster of CFR's Edward R. Murrow Press Fellows". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
- ^ a b "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017
- ^ "Minnesota Birth Index". FamilySearch. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ^ Wood, Graeme. "Richard Spencer Was My High-School Classmate". The Atlantic. No. June 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ^ Adam A. Sofen (2000). "Transfers From Deep Springs College Face Unique Transition". Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Author page". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ a b "Graeme Wood | The Pearson Institute". thepearsoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
- ^ Graeme Wood (2008). "Letter from Pashmul: Policing Afghanistan: An ethnic-minority force enters a Taliban stronghold". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ "SAJA | South Asian Journalists Association - Reporting Fellowship Grant Winners". www.saja.org. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
- ^ a b "The World Today: Lessons from ISIL, for Jihadists and their Enemies with Graeme Wood | Penn Global".
- ^ "The Chat with Governor General's Nonfiction Award Winner Graeme Wood". 49th Shelf, November 27, 2017
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