Greg Grandin is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward professor of history at Yale University. Previously, he taught at New York University for nineteen years. He is the author of seven books, including, most recently, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, which won the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History. Fordlandia was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award.
The Empire of Necessity won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history. The Blood of Guatemala won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for best book published on Latin America in any discipline. He is also the author of The Last Colonial Massacre, Empire’s Workshop, and Kissinger’s Shadow. Grandin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians. He has co-edited, with Gil Joseph, A Century of Revolution, and, with Deborah Levenson and Elizabeth Oglesby, The Guatemala Reader. Grandin has published widely, in The Nation, where he is a member of the editorial board, the London Review of Books, the New Republic, NACLA’s Report on the Americas, and the New York Times, among other venues. He is a regular guest on Democracy Now!