Peter Wood

President of the National Association of Scholars

Peter W. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars. He is the author of A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (2007), Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (2003), and The Architecture of Intellectual Freedom (2016). He is co-author What Does Bowdoin Teach? (2013), Common Core: Yea and Nay (2014), Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism (2015).

He is a graduate of Haverford College (1975), Rutgers University (1977), and the University of Rochester, from which he received a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1987. He previously served as provost of The King’s College in New York City, and as the president’s chief of staff at Boston University, where he was also a tenured member of the anthropology department.