Peter Maass

Peter Maass is the author of ‘Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War,’ which chronicled his experiences covering the war in Bosnia, and ‘Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil,’ about the ways oil shapes the world. Maass has written in-depth magazine stories about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and other publications. He has taught at Princeton University, was a Visiting Regents Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, and a fellow at both the American Academy in Berlin and the Shorenstein Center at Harvard. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012 for his forthcoming book on revolution, video and surveillance.