Graeme Wood

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Lecturer in Political Science

Bio

Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and has taught at Yale since 2014.

He was the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (2015-2016), a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2018), and a fellow at the United States Naval Academy (2023-2024). 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. He has been a Pulitzer Prize juror and National Magazine Award finalist. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of Yale’s Davenport College.

Contact

115 Prospect Street, Rosenkranz Hall, Room 209
graeme.wood@yale.edu

Education

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

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