Woodward Featured in BU Today’s Office Artifacts
John D. Woodward, Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was interviewed for a recent feature on the mementos and memorabilia he keeps in his Bay State Road office.
Woodward was interviewed for a November 15, 2016 article in BU Today as part of their ongoing “Office Artifacts” series. The series highlights interesting artifacts professors display in their office. Woodward discussed the awards and foreign souvenirs from his 20-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as family mementos that he displays prominently in his office.
From the article:
Although awards and foreign souvenirs catch visitors’ eyes, the item in his office that means the most to him isn’t related to his CIA career. His late father, who died when he was 10, was a World War II combat veteran. After retiring from the CIA, Woodward searched his mother’s attic for furniture for his new Boston apartment. “I started going through an old cardboard box and found my father’s World War II discharge papers, and you can see it confirms his overseas service, where he got four bronze stars,” he says. “I had never seen this document before.
“It was something that I thought I would never have, and it was because I was moving to BU, that I got those things,” he says.
You can read the entire article here.
Woodward is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. During his twenty-year CIA career, he served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington, DC, East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Learn more about him here.