Articles Tagged: New America

Discussing America’s shared story, Washington, D.C., Oct. 29 (private)

Posted September 18th, 2025 & filed under .

I’ll be joining a panel to guide the discussion of the United States’ shared national story at New America in Washington, D.C. the morning of Oct. 29. To attend this… Read more »

Discussing America’s shared story with Ted Johnson on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling”

Posted April 27th, 2025 & filed under Media, media appearances.

Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard recently joined New America fellow Ted Johnson on Maine Public radio’s statewide public affairs interview and call-in show, Maine Calling, to discuss the implications of… Read more »

COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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