Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower (b. 1958) is a historian and author specializing in modern Greece, 20th-century Europe, and international issues. He holds the "Ira D. Wallach" Chair of History at Columbia University. He has also taught international relations and modern history at the universities of Sussex and Princeton. A graduate of Oxford and Johns Hopkins Universities, he has published, among other works, award-winning books on Greece: "Greece and the Inter-war Economic Crisis," 1991 (adaptation of his doctoral thesis, Runciman Award 1992), "Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44," 1993 (Fraenkel Prize and Longman/History Today Book of the Year), and "Salonika, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950," 2004. He has also edited collective volumes with a focus on Greece: "After the War was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943-1960," 2000, and "Networks of Power in Modern Greece," 2008. He regularly comments in the press and on radio about current developments in the Balkans. His other historical books include "Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century," 1998, "The Balkans: A Short History," 2000, and "Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe," 2008.