Graeme Wood (journalist)

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Graeme Wood
Born (1979-08-21) August 21, 1979 (age 45)
Education Harvard University (BA)
OccupationJournalist
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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]

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Early life and education

Wood 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

Wood 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Graeme Wood | Department of Political Science". Department of Political Science. Yale. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Historical Roster of CFR's Edward R. Murrow Press Fellows". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  3. 1 2 "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017
  4. "Minnesota Birth Index". FamilySearch . Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  5. Wood, Graeme. "Richard Spencer Was My High-School Classmate". The Atlantic . No. June 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  6. Adam A. Sofen (2000). "Transfers From Deep Springs College Face Unique Transition" . Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  7. "Author page". The Atlantic . Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  8. 1 2 "Graeme Wood | The Pearson Institute". thepearsoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  9. Graeme Wood (2008). "Letter from Pashmul: Policing Afghanistan: An ethnic-minority force enters a Taliban stronghold". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  10. "SAJA | South Asian Journalists Association - Reporting Fellowship Grant Winners". www.saja.org. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  11. 1 2 "The World Today: Lessons from ISIL, for Jihadists and their Enemies with Graeme Wood | Penn Global".
  12. "The Chat with Governor General's Nonfiction Award Winner Graeme Wood". 49th Shelf, November 27, 2017