PERSON: Graeme Wood
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Biography
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. He was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations 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.
Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and was a contributing editor beforehand. He has also written for The Cambodia Daily, The New Yorker, 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.
He has been a lecturer in political science at Yale University since 2014.
Wood was awarded the 2015–2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior, he had also been awarded a 2009 Reporting Fellowship Grant from the South Asian Journalists Association 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). He was a 2018 visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House.
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, for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.
In 2024, controversy abounded after an article by Wood titled, The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense, was published by The Atlantic in which Wood argued “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.” Many news outlets criticized the article and the magazine for its publication.
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Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and was a contributing editor beforehand. He has also written for The Cambodia Daily, The New Yorker, 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.
He has been a lecturer in political science at Yale University since 2014.
Wood was awarded the 2015–2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior, he had also been awarded a 2009 Reporting Fellowship Grant from the South Asian Journalists Association 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). He was a 2018 visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House.
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, for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.
In 2024, controversy abounded after an article by Wood titled, The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense, was published by The Atlantic in which Wood argued “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.” Many news outlets criticized the article and the magazine for its publication.
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