Christian Christian Parenti is a contributing editor at The Nation and a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, at the CUNY Grad Center. He has reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. His work has appeared in Fortune, The Washington Post, The New York Times, London Review of Books, Mother Jones and Playboy.

The most recent of his three books is, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. He has a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics, has held fellowships from OSI, RBF and the Ford Foundation; and has won numerous awards, including the 2009 Lange-Tailor Prize and Best Magazine Writing 2008 from the Society for Professional Journalists. Currently, he is at work on a book about climate change and war.

Christian is available to speak on all the topics of his work; recent lectures have covered US foreign policy, Latin America, the war in Iraq; his current research focuses on Afghanistan.

He can be reached at the email below.