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Serge Gruzinski

Serge Gruzinski is emeritus research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

His résumé in English is detailed below:

Born on November 5th, 1949, in Tourcoing (France)

Diploma in Archival and Paleography / Member of the Ecole Française de Rome / Member of the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) / Doctor of Letters, University of Paris 1 / Director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research / Director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris / Director of the Joint Research Unit 8565 “Imperios, Sociedades, Naciones”.

Curator of the exhibition Planète métisse at the Musée du quai Branly (2008-2009).

Member of the Scientific Orientation Council of the Musée du quai Branly.

Awards: Prix Roger Caillois for all his work / Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize (1991) / Silver Medal from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (1996) / Honoris causa doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2007) / Honoris causa doctorate from the University of San Carlos, Lima (2007) / International Prize of History, International Committee of Historical Sciences, Jinan (2015).

Main works: The Conquest of Mexico: Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century, Paris, 1988. Translated into Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019), Paris, Fayard, 1990.  Translated into Italian, Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Painting the Conquest: The Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance, Paris, Flammarion-UNESCO, 1991. Translated into English.

L'Aigle et la Sibylle. Fresques indiennes des couvents mexicains, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1994. Translated into Spanish (Moleiro, Barcelona).

Histoire de Mexico, Paris, Fayard, 1996. Translated into Spanish.

The Mestizo Mind, Paris, Fayard, 1999. Translated into Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Les Quatre Parties du monde. Histoire d'une mondialisation, Paris, Editions de la Martinière, 2004.  Translated into Portuguese and Spanish.

¿Para qué sirve la Historia?, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2018.