Mark Mazower

Born and raised in London, Mark Mazower was educated at Oxford, where he read classics and philosophy. He subsequently obtained a doctorate in history from the same university, under the supervision of John Campbell.
He is currently the Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, which he founded and which opened at Reid Hall in Paris in fall 2018, bringing together scholars with internationally renowned writers, artists and film-makers. 
A specialist in modern Greece, 20th-century Europe, and international history, he has written more than ten books. His works on Greece include Inside Hitler's Greece: the Experience of Occupation and Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950. Among his other books are Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century and Governing the World: the History of an Idea, as well as a family memoir which traces the stories of his father's relatives back into the Russian Revolution.
He contributes regularly to the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books among other periodicals.
In 2016, he and director Constantine Giannaris made the short film, Techniques of the Body, a meditation on the refugee crisis in Greek history. 
He was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for his most recent book, The Greek Revolution: 1821 and The Making of Modern Europe (Penguin Press). He has received an honorary degree from the University of Athens and last year he was awarded honorary Greek citizenship.