Nick Cullather obtained his PhD from the University of Virginia. In July, 1992, Cullather was awarded a one-year contract as a staff historian at the Central Intelligence Agency. His work at the CIA was eventually declassified and published as Secret History: The Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-54 (1999).
Cullather is associate professor of history at Indiana University and associate editor of the Journal of American History. He is also co-author of Making a Nation: The United States and Its People (2001).
