Mark A. Mazower
Ira D. Wallach Professor of History; Department Chair
503 Fayerweather Hall
Phone: (212) 854-4576
Email: mm2669@columbia.edu
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
Education
D.Phil. — Oxford University 1988
M.A. — Johns Hopkins University 1983
B.A. — Oxford University 1981
Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE
Interests and Research
Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, specializes in modern Greece, 20th-century Europe, and international history. Current interests include the history of international norms and institutions, the history of Greek independence, and the historical evolution of the Greek islands in the very long run.
Awards
- Dido Sotiriou Award of the Hellenic Author Society, 2012
- Society of Columbia Graduates Great Teacher Award - 2011
- Hitler's Empire: Trilling Award - 2009
- Hitler's Empire: LA Times Book Prize for History - 2009
- Salonica, City of Ghosts: Duff Cooper Prize - 2005
- John Criticos Prize, Runciman Prize, National Jewish Book Award - 2005
- Dark Continent: German History Book Prize - 2002
- The Balkans: Wolfson Prize for History - 2001
- The Balkans: Adolphe Bentinck Prize - 2001
- Dark Continent: Premio Acqui - 2001
Selected Publications
Books
Governing the World: The History of an Idea
No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
After the War was Over: Reconstructing the State, Family and the Law in Greece, 1943-1960
The BalkansDark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
The Policing of Politics in Historical Perspective
Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944
Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis
Scholarly Articles
"No Exit?: Greece's Ongoing Crisis," Nation, April 1, 2013
"Italy Exposes Wider Crisis of Democracy," FT, February 28, 2013
"Democarcy Itself is at Stake in Southern Europe," FT, October 3, 2012
"Comment", [Forum on Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands], Contemporary European History, March-April 2012
"Reconstruction: the Historiographical Issues," D.Feldman, M. Mazower, and J.Reinisch,eds., Postwar Reconstruction in Europe: International Perspectives, 1945-49, 17-29
"New Europe", Guardian, March 14, 2011
"Anderson's Amphibologies: on Perry Anderson." The Nation, April 26. 2010
"Saviors and Sovereigns: the Rise and Fall of Humanitarianism." World Affairs, March/April 2010
"Introduction" to Eric Ambler's The Mask of Dimitrios, Penguin Classics, 2009
"Foucault, Agamben and the Nazis." Boundary2, 35:1. 2008
"An International Civilisation: Empire, Internationalism and the Crisis of the mid-20th Century." International Affairs, 82:3, pp. 553-566, 2006.
"The Strange Triumph of Human Rights, 1933-1950." Historical Journal, 47:2, pp. 379-39, 2004.
"Minorities and the League of Nations in Interwar Europe." Daedalus , 126:2 [Human Diversity], pp. 47-65, 2002.
"Violence and the State in the Twentieth Century." American Historical Review , pp. 1147-1167, 2002.
"The Cold War and the Appropriation of Memory: Greece after Liberation." I.Deak and J.Gross, eds., Political Justice and Retribution in Postwar Europe, Princeton UP, 2002.
"Introduction" to If Not Now, When, by Primo Levi, Penguin, 2000.
"Structures of authority in the Greek resistance, 1941-1944." T.Kirk and A.McElligott, eds., Opposing Fascism: Community, Authority and Resistance in Europe, Cambridge UP, pp.120-133, 1999.
"Introduction" J.Dunnage, ed., After the War: Violence, Justice, Continuity and Renewal in Italian Society, Troubador, Hull, 1-5, 1999.
"Hitler's New Order, 1939-1945." Diplomacy and Statecraft, 7:1, pp. 29-53, 1996.
Articles
"Democracy's Cradle, Rocking the World."
Affiliations
- Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
- Director, Center for International History, Columbia University
- Member, Editorial Board, Past and Present