ABSTRACT
Greg Grandin is a professor in the Department of History at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999. His publications include Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (2000), for which he received the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award; The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America During the Cold War (2004); Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Empire (2005); and the critically lauded Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (2009), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His edited volumes include A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America’s Long War (with Gilbert Joseph) (2010) and “The Imperial Presidency: The Legacy of Reagan’s Central American Policy” in Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America (Michael Thompson, editor) (2007). He has also published in the New York Times, Harper’s, London Review of Books, The Nation, Boston Review, Los Angeles Times, and American Historical Review. He served as a consultant to the UN truth commission on Guatemala and is the recipient of a number of honors and awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2004.
