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Graeme Wood
Born (1979-08-21) August 21, 1979 (age 45)
Polk County, Minnesota
EducationHarvard University (BA)
OccupationJournalist
WebsiteOfficial Website

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]

Early life and education

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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 the Arabic language at the 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] While at Harvard, he wrote for The Harvard Crimson.[7][8]

Career

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Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and was a contributing editor beforehand.[9] He has also written for The Cambodia Daily,[10] The New Yorker,[11] 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.[10]

Wood has been a lecturer in political science at Yale University since 2014.[1]

In 2024, Wood wrote an article titled, The UN's Gaza Statistics Make No Sense, published by The Atlantic which became the subject of controversy. In the article, Wood stated that "It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them. But the sight of a legally killed child is no less disturbing than the sight of a murdered one."[12][13] Some media outlets criticized the magazine for publishing the article.[14][15]

Recognition

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Wood was awarded the 2015–2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations.[2] Prior, he was awarded a 2009 Reporting Fellowship Grant from the South Asian Journalists Association[16] 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).[17] He was a 2018 visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.[17]

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,[18] for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Graeme Wood | Department of Political Science". Department of Political Science. Yale. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Historical Roster of CFR's Edward R. Murrow Press Fellows". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  3. ^ a b "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. ^ "Graeme Wood | Writer Page | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
  8. ^ "Graeme C. A. wood | Writer Page | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2025-06-13.
  9. ^ "Author page". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  10. ^ a b "Graeme Wood | The Pearson Institute". thepearsoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  11. ^ Graeme Wood (2008). "Letter from Pashmul: Policing Afghanistan: An ethnic-minority force enters a Taliban stronghold". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  12. ^ Wood, Graeme (May 17, 2024). "The UN's Gaza Statistics Make No Sense". The Atlantic.
  13. ^ Wood, Graeme (May 17, 2024). "The UN's Gaza Statistics Make No Sense". Microsoft News. The Atlantic.
  14. ^ "The Atlantic faces backlash for saying 'It is possible to kill children legally' in Gaza". Middle East Monitor. May 27, 2024.
  15. ^ Young, Gregor (May 27, 2024). "The Atlantic: US publication called out for 'justifying murder of Palestinian children'". The National.
  16. ^ "SAJA | South Asian Journalists Association - Reporting Fellowship Grant Winners". www.saja.org. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  17. ^ a b "The World Today: Lessons from ISIL, for Jihadists and their Enemies with Graeme Wood | Penn Global".
  18. ^ "The Chat with Governor General's Nonfiction Award Winner Graeme Wood · 49th Shelf". 49thshelf.com. 49th Shelf. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
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