Greg Grandin's Teaching and Research InterestsResearch Interests:
I received my BA from Brooklyn College, CUNY in 1992 and my Ph.D. from Yale in 1999. In general, my work explores the connection between the diverse manifestations of everyday life and the large-scale societal transformation that took place in Central America related to agricultural commodity production and state formation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My first book, The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Duke University Press, 2000), which won the Latin American Studies Association's Bryce Wood Award for most outstanding book published in English in the humanities and social sciences on Latin America, was a two-century history of the development of Mayan nationalism. My new book, The Last Colonial Massacre: The Latin American Cold War and its Consequence, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, combines local and international history to study the evolution of both state violence and democracy. It concentrates on how the evolution of the Latin American Left was related to the transformation of older forms of state repression to newer counterinsurgent methods and ideologies. Specifically, it examines Mayan involvement in Guatemala’s Communist Party, focusing on the lived experience of political terror and how that terror has reconfigured political subjectivity. I have published articles on revolution, popular memory, US-Latin American relations, photography, genocide, truth commissions, human rights, disease, and the tensions that exist between legal and historical inquiries into political violence. I am currently editing a book on twentieth-century Latin American revolutionary violence and have published Denegado en su totalidad: Documentos-estadounidenses liberados (Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala, 2001) -- a collection of declassified United States documents. In 1997-1998, I worked with the Guatemalan Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico – the UN-administered truth commission set up to investigate political violence committed during Guatemala’s 36-year civil war.
Teaching Interests:
Aside from survey courses in South American and Mesoamerican history, I have taught the following graduate and undergraduate courses: "Terror and Memory in Latin America;" "History and Anthropology;" "The Roots of Revolution;" "Latino/as in North America;" "Comparative Native American History in North and South America;" and "Latin America and the Cold War."
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