Nathan Grau

Nate Grau is an Ernest May fellow in History and Policy at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a doctoral candidate in History at Harvard University. His dissertation, “Brazzaville’s Diaspora: Colonial Development, Racial Violence, and the Birth of Modern Counterinsurgency, 1941-1958,” examines the evolving roles of paramilitary forces in the French Army during decolonization conflicts in Madagascar, Indochina, and Algeria. His interests broadly include counterinsurgency, European Defense, and inter-communal violence. He has been a Fulbright fellow at the Université Paris-Nanterre and holds previous degrees from Columbia University and New York University.