Grubin is best known for producing television documentaries for
PBS, notably
American Experience and
Healing And The Mind with Bill Moyers. His work has won two Alfred I. Dupont awards, two Peabody Awards, five
Writer's Guild prizes, and four
Primetime Emmys. A member of the executive committee of the
Society of American Historians, Grubin has received a
Guggenheim Fellowship, has been a Montgomery Fellow at
Dartmouth College, and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater,
Hamilton College. He is a member of the Writers Guild and
Directors Guild, and is a former chairman of the board of directors of The
Film Forum. His independent feature film,
Downtown Express, was selected for the
Woodstock Film Festival, FilmColumbia Festival, and opening night at the Cinema Arts Festival Houston. He teaches documentary filmmaking at
Columbia University's Graduate Film Program. == Personal life ==