Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower has directed the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination since it was founded in Paris in 2018. Since then, it has welcomed dozens of the world's most brilliant artists and scholars as Fellows and won international renown as a unique residency program. The Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University, Mazower was educated at Oxford and Johns Hopkins University. He has been teaching history for nearly four decades and has published prize-winning books on modern Greece, Europe, and international governance, among them Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe and, most recently, On Antisemitism: A Word in History. His reviews and commentary on world affairs appear regularly in the Financial Times, Kathimerini, and other newspapers. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy.