塞尔日·格鲁金斯基，首届国际历史科学大奖得主，现就职于法国高等社会科学研究院，同时兼任法国国家研究中心历史研究员。格鲁金斯基多年来一直从事16-18世纪的拉丁美洲研究，从上世纪90年代以来，屡有力作问世，其中《征服墨西哥》、《墨西哥高原的上帝化身》与《阿兹特克：太阳与血的民族》等著在欧美学界均引发了广泛的学术讨论。学界比较知名的专业刊物如《美国历史评论》、《英国历史评论》、《历史与理论》、《拉丁美洲研究评论》等都对他的著作进行评论。
In 1969, he entered the École Nationale des Chartes and prepared a thesis on sixteenth-century Flanders under the direction of Pierre Goubert. In 1970, a trip to Mexico awakened his interest in this country. He was a member of the École française de Rome from 1973 to 1975 and the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. In 1983, he joined the CNRS where he became research director in 1989. He is also the director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences since 1993.
Gruzinski is interested in the colonisation of the Americas and Asia, especially the colonial experiences like those cross-cultural areas, birth of hybrid spaces and first manifestations of globalisation. With Carmen Bernand, he published De l’idolâtrie : Une archéologie des sciences religieuses and two volumes of Histoire du Nouveau Monde. He is the author of Le destin brisé de l’empire aztèque, a heavily illustrated pocket book from the collection “Découvertes Gallimard”, which has been translated into nine languages, including English.In 2004, he was curator of the exhibition “Planète Métisse” 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)
