The granddaughter of Nathan Greenfeld. She is called "one of the most ori- ginal thinkers of the current period" and "the great historian of Nationalism". Liah Greenfeld has held the positions of Assistant as wel as John .L Lob Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard University between 1985 and 1994, and in 1994 joined Boston University as a University Professor and Professor of Political Science and Sociology. She has also held visiting positions at RPI, MIT, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the Open University, Hong Kong. From 2010 to 2016, she held the position of Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Greenfeld has been a recipient of the UAB Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Award, fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, Israel, and grants from Mellon, Olin, Earhart, The National Council for Soviet & East European Research, and The German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2004, she deliveredthe Gellner lecture attheLondon School of Economics on the subiect of "Nationalism and the Mind", launching theresearch connecting her previous work on modern culture to a new perspective on mental illness, and in 2011, the Tom Nairn Lecture at the Globalism Research Center, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.