Serge Gruzinski (born 5 November 1949) is a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

. He is a Latin America specialist.

Career

In 1969, he entered the

École Nationale des Chartes The École Nationale des Chartes (, literally National School of Charters) is a French ''grande école'' and a constituent college of Université PSL, specialising in the historical sciences. It was founded in 1821, and was located initially at ...

and prepared a thesis on sixteenth-century Flanders under the direction of Pierre Goubert. In 1970, a trip to

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

awakened his interest in this country. He was a member of the

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et d ...

from 1973 to 1975 and the

Casa de Velázquez The ''Casa de Velázquez'' is a French school in Spain modelled on the Villa Médicis in Rome, and Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algeria.''75 aniversario de la Casa de Velázquez. Memoria gráfica 1928-2003'', Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2006, 182 p. - ac ...

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

. In 1983, he joined the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

where he became research director in 1989. He is also the director of studies at the

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

since 1993. Gruzinski is interested in the

colonisation of the Americas During the Age of Discovery, a large scale European colonization of the Americas took place between about 1492 and 1800. Although Norse colonization of North America, the Norse had explored and colonized areas of the North Atlantic, colonizin ...

and

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an area ...

, especially the colonial experiences like those

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areas, birth of hybrid spaces and

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manifestations of

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. With

Carmen Bernand Carmen Bernand (born Carmen Muñoz on 19 September 1939) is a French anthropologist, historian and Latin Americanist. Biography Carmen Bernand was born in France to Spanish refugee parents, she lived in Argentina for 25 years, where she studi ...

, he published and two volumes of . He is the author of , a richly illustrated pocket book from the

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“

Découvertes Gallimard (, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an editorial collection of illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in pocket format. The books are concise introductions to pa ...

”, which has been translated into nine languages, including English. In 2004, he was curator of the exhibition “” at the Musée du quai Branly. In 2015, he won the International Grand Prize for History at the 22nd International Congress of Historical Sciences (ICHS).

Selected publications

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* ''Le destin brisé de l’empire aztèque'', collection «

» (nº 33), série Histoire. Éditions Gallimard, 1988 (new edition in 2010) ** US edition – ''The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire'', “

Abrams Discoveries Abrams may refer to: * Abrams (surname), a list of notable people with the surname * '' Abrams v. United States'', 250 U.S. 616 (1919), U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding free speech during times of war * M1 Abrams, main battle tank * Abrams, Wi ...

” series. Harry N. Abrams, 1992 ** UK edition – ''The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire'', ‘

New Horizons ''New Horizons'' is an Interplanetary spaceflight, interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research ...

’ series. Thames & Hudson, 1992 * Co-author with

, ''De l’idolâtrie : Une archéologie des sciences religieuses'', collection « Philosophie Générale ». Seuil, 1988 * ''La colonisation de l’imaginaire : Sociétés indigènes et occidentalisation dans le Mexique espagnol (XVIᵉ-XVIIIᵉ siècle)'', collection « Bibliothèque des Histoires ». Éditions Gallimard, 1988 * ''Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power and Colonial Society, 1520–1800'', Stanford University Press, 1989 * Co-author with Carmen Bernand, ''Histoire du Nouveau Monde'' (2 volumes), Fayard, 1991 and 1993 * ''Painting The Conquest: The Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance'', Flammarion, 1992 * ''Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)'', Duke University Press, 2001 * ''The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization'', Routledge, 2002 * ''The Eagle & the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century'', Polity Press, 2014 * ''A History of Mexico City'', University of California Press, 2019

References

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