Greg Grandin is the author of The Empire of Necessity, which won both the Bancroft Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award in American history; Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and a number of other widely acclaimed books, including Kissinger’s Shadow, Empire’s Workshop, The Last Colonial Massacre, and The Blood of Guatemala. After teaching at New York University, he joined the Department of History at Yale University in 2019. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Public Library, Grandin has served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan civil war and has written for The Nation, The London Review of Books, and The New York Times.