Zoë H. Wool

Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Mississauga

Zoë Wool has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with grievously injured US soldiers and their families living at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as well as at other military sites in the US and abroad. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles about the ongoing effects of war in soldiers’ lives as well as the monograph After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed.
SEE PAPER > The War Comes Home: The Toll of War and the Shifting Burden of Care (2011)
The War Comes Home: Institutionalizing Informal Care and the Family Consequences of Combat Injuries (2013)

Areas of Interest: Social and economic impact of war on veterans, families