Dr. Graeme Wood

Biography

Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Yale University since 2014. He served as the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2015 to 2016 and has held positions as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and a fellow at the United States Naval Academy for the academic year 2023-2024. Wood is the author of 'The Way of Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State,' published by Random House in 2017. This work was recognized as one of Foreign Affairs' 'Best Books of the Year' and won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. He was also a juror for the Pulitzer Prize and a finalist for the National Magazine Award. Wood is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a fellow at Yale’s Davenport College.

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