Serge Gruzinski is a French historian, the Directeur de recherche émérite of CNRS and Directeur d'études all'Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Social Science. He teaches History of Colonial Iberian America and Global History in France, the United States and Brazil. In 2015, he was awarded the CISH Jaeger-LeCoultre Prize, the International Prize for History.
He is renowned and respected worldwide for his profound knowledge of the problems associated with the European conquest of America. His works translated into Italian include: La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner (SugarCo, 1991); Gli Aztechi. Il tragico destino di un impero (l’Unità/Electa-Gallimard, 1994); La colonizzazione dell’immaginario (Einaudi, 1994); Dell’idolatria (with Carmen Bernard, Einaudi, 1995); and Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato (Raffaello Cortina, 2016).