Serge Gruzinski

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Serge Gruzinski (born 5 November 1949) is a French historian who specializes in Latin America. He began studying at the École Nationale des Chartes in 1969, writing a thesis on 16th‑century Flanders under Pierre Goubert. A 1970 trip to Mexico sparked his interest in the country. He worked at the École française de Rome (1973–1975) and lived at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. He joined the CNRS in 1983 and became its research director in 1989. Since 1993 he has been a director of studies at the EHESS.

Gruzinski’s work focuses on the colonization of the Americas and Asia, cross‑cultural contact, hybrid cultures, and early globalization. With Carmen Bernand, he published De l'idolâtrie: Une archéologie des sciences religieuses and two volumes of Histoire du Nouveau Monde. He wrote Le destin brisé de l'empire aztèque, a richly illustrated pocket book in the Découvertes Gallimard series, translated into nine languages including English. In 2004 he curated the Planète Métisse 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.