Grant Golub is an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. He received his Ph.D. in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in May 2023. He will be starting as an Assistant Professor of American History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College in 2023–2024. He specializes in U.S. grand strategy, diplomatic and international history, the domestic determinants of American foreign policy, transatlantic relations, and how executive branch agencies shape U.S. strategy and policy. The title of his thesis was "The Warrior-Politicians: Henry L. Stimson, the War Department, and the Politics of American Grand Strategy during World War II."

A graduate of Princeton University and LSE, Grant is also a 2022–2023 Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center, a Junior Fellow with the International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network (IPSCON) hosted by the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a Fellow at Defense Priorities, a Washington foreign policy think tank. His academic work has been published in the Journal of Strategic Studies and The International History Review. His commentary can be found in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The National Interest, Business Insider, Responsible Statecraft, and other outlets. He's a native of Sarasota, Florida.