is President of the National Association of Scholars. Dr Wood was previously tenured at Boston University as a professor of anthropology, where among other roles he served as Associate Provost and Chief of Staff to the President. He went on to hold the position of Provost at The King’s College in New York. Dr Wood’s long-term anthropological lens and his experiences at the various levels of academia have informed his multiple published books, several edited and co-authored collections, and several hundred articles examining the origins and consequences of issues ranging from the Common Core initiative to the radicalization and cordoning off of topics on college campuses.
His book, Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (2003), won the Caldwell Award for Leadership in Higher Education from the John Locke Foundation and his 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project (2020) and Diversity Rules (2020) have become touchstone studies for those trying to navigate a era of radical revision and administration. Dr Wood’s sustained thoughts on higher education have also been published by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Review, Minding the Campus, and Partisan Review, among others journals, and he is a frequent public voice on mainstream news stations in conversations surrounding academia. He is, in addition, the editor-in-chief of Academic Questions. For his work in bringing to national attention the political prejudices, curricular censorship, administrative bloat, and suppression of freedom and speech and thought that characterize all too many institutions of higher education he receieved the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize in 2019.
