Mark A. Mazower
Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, specializes in modern Greece, 20th-century Europe, and international history. His current interests include 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. In 2016 he made a film Techniques of the Body, a meditation on the refugee crisis in Greek history, with director Constantine Giannaris. 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), a family history. He is Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, which opened at Reid Hall in Paris in fall 2018 and which brings together scholars with leading artists, writers, composers and film-makers from around the world. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Publications
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, Allen Lane, 2008
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, HarperCollins, 2004
The Balkans: A Short History, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000 Inside Hitler’s Greece: the Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944, Yale University Press, 1993
Networks of Power in Modern Greece, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2008 Postwar Reconstruction in Europe: International Perspectives 1945-1949, Past and Present Supplement 6, OUP, 2011
Governing the World: The History of an Idea, Penguin, 2012 No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations, Princeton University Press, 2009
After the War was Over: Reconstructing the State, Family and the Law in Greece, 1943-1960, Princeton University Press, 2000 Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century, Knopf, 1998
Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis, Claredon Press, 1991 The Policing of Politics in Historical Perspective, Berghahn, 1997
Areas of Interest
Modern Greek history, Ottoman Balkans and the Middle East, modern Europe and the international history of population movements and refugees