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Speaker Greg Grandin, History. New York University
Date Mar 29, 2012
Time 12:00 pm  
Location Room 126 Library & Information Science Building
Sponsor Center for Advanced Study, Departments of History, Anthropology, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Latino/a Studies and the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies.
Contact Angelina Cotler
Event type Lecture Series
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Greg Grandin is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan 2009). A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Fordlandia was picked by the New York Times, New Yorker, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and NPR for their 'best of' lists, and Amazon.com named it the best history book of 2009. A professor of history at NYU and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Grandin writes on US foreign policy, Latin America, genocide, and human rights. He has published in The New York Times, Harper's, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, and The American Historical Review. He has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now! and has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show. Grandin also served as a consultant to the United Nations truth commission on Guatemala and has been the recipient of a number of prestigious fellowships, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. His most recent book, edited with Gil Joseph, A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War, will be published by Duke University Press in 2010.