Biography

Mark Mazower is a historian and writer, specialising in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. He read classics and philosophy at Oxford, studied international affairs at Johns Hopkins University's Bologna Center, and has a doctorate in modern history from Oxford (1988). His books include Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 (Yale UP, 1993); Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century (Knopf, 1998); The Balkans (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000); and After the War was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943-1960 (Princeton UP, 2000). His most recent book is Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (HarperCollins, 2004).

Having recently completed a new book entitled Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Penguin, 2008), his interests include comparative dimensions of the post-Ottoman experience in the Balkans and the Middle East, war and population movements, and the history of international norms and institutions. He is the program director of the Center for International History at Columbia University, and he comments on world affairs for the Financial Times and other media.