Mark Mazower
Mark Mazower specializes in the history of modern Greece, 20th-century Europe, and international history. His current interests include the collapse of the haute bourgeoisie in Europe, the philosophy of history, anti-semitism and the historical evolution of the Greek islands in the very long run. He comments on international affairs and reviews books for the Financial Times, the Nation, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and others. His works include Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (1998); Salonica, City of Ghosts: Muslims, Christians and Jews, 1430-1950 (2004) and Governing the World: the History of an Idea (2012). His most recent books are The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe (2021) which won the Duff Cooper Prize and What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home (Other Press, 2017). He teaches seminars on the philosophy of history, historiography and the way historians have approached the writing of individual lives and his students have worked on topics ranging from the history of domestic violence in postwar western Europe and computing in Communist Bulgaria to Islamic modernism in post-Ottoman Bosnia and smuggling and prostitution in early 20th century Greece. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.