Jonathan Grant

Jonathan A. Grant is a Professor of Modern Russian History. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1995.  He was the co-editor and contributor to the The Oxford Handbook of World War II  (Oxford University Press, 2023). His most recent monograph is Between Depression and Disarmament: The International Armaments Business, 1919-1939 (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His previous books include Rulers, Guns and Money (Harvard 2007), which examined the global armaments business in the era of high imperialism from roughly 1860 to 1914 and Big Business in Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999) detailing the history of the Putilov Company in tsarist Russia.  Professor Grant's areas of interest include Russia, military history, business history, and arms trafficking in world history. In addition to Russian history, he teaches courses on Central Asian history since the Mongol Conquest, Modern Balkans (19th and 20th centuries), World War I, and the History of Trafficking in the Modern World. In 2008 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching named him the Undergraduate Professor of the Year for Florida. He is the Director of the FSU Holocaust Institute for Educators. Through the Institute he offers professional development workshops that provide historical content about the Holocaust for K-12 teachers around the state of Florida to help them teach the state standards for Holocaust education.