Graeme Wood

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Lecturer in Political Science

Bio

Graeme Wood is a staff writer for The Atlantic. His book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State (Random House, 2017) was a Foreign Affairs “Best Book of the Year” and won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. It has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, and Arabic.

Wood was the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (2015-2016), a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House (2018), and a lecturer at The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He is a non-resident fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism and King’s College London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.

A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has taught at Yale since 2014.

Contact

115 Prospect Street, Rosenkranz Hall, Room 105
graeme.wood@yale.edu

Education

  • Deep Springs College
  • Harvard
  • The American University in Cairo

 

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