University of Oxford
Mark Mazower went to which school from 1980 to 1981?
Mark Mazower Mark Mazower ( ; born 20 February 1958 ) is a British historian . His expertise are Greece , the Balkans and , more generally , 20th-century Europe . He is Ira D . Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University in New York City . Early life . Mazower was born in Golders Green and spent most of his early life in north London . His mother was a physiotherapist and his father worked for Unilever . During his youth , Mazower enjoyed playing the French horn and composing classical music . Mazowers father was of Russian Jewish descent . When Mazower began to write his book What You Did Not Tell : A Russian Past and the Journey Home , he discovered that his grandfather , Max , was a member of the Bund , a Jewish socialist party , was involved in revolutionary activities , and helped print illegal books in Yiddish advocating socialism . Max was regularly arrested by the Tsarist police and was imprisoned twice in Siberia , before eventually fleeing the country and settling in England in 1924 . Mazower also discovered that his grandparents continued to hang out with Russian-Jewish revolutionaries in Golders Green . Reflecting on the discovery , Mazower said : During his youth , Mazower enjoyed reading classical literature and philosophy . Career . Mazower received his BA in Classics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 1981 and his doctorate from the same university in 1988 . He also holds an MA in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University ( 1983 ) . Prior to his arrival at Columbia , Mazower taught at Birkbeck , University of London , the University of Sussex and Princeton University . Mazower has also written for newspapers since 2002 such as the Financial Times and for The Independent contributing articles on international affairs and book reviews . He has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the European Association of History Educators ( EUROCLIO ) . Fields of interest . Mazower has written extensively on Greek and Balkan history . His book The Balkans won the Wolfson History Prize and Inside Hitlers Greece : The Experience of Occupation , 1941–44 , both won the Longman History Today Award for Book of the Year . Salonica , City of Ghosts : Christians , Muslims and Jews 1430–1950 was the Runciman Prize and Duff Cooper Prize winner and was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize . In addition , Mazower is more broadly concerned with 20th-century European history . His book argued that the triumph of democracy in Europe was not inevitable but rather the result of chance and political agency on the part of citizens , subjects and leaders . In Hitlers Empire : Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe , Mazower compared Nazi German occupation policy in different European countries . Mazowers book , No Enchanted Palace , was published in 2009 . It narrates the origins of the United Nations and its strict ties to colonialism and its predecessor organisation , the League of Nations . In Governing the World ( 2012 ) , this narrative is taken one step further , and the history of international organisations in general is evaluated , beginning with the Concert of Europe at the start of the nineteenth century . Mazowers 2018 inter-generational biography of his own family , What you did not tell , described their lives , education and politics and how it influences his interest in history , place , and the writing of biography . Caroline Moorehead , an acclaimed biographer , on reviewing this book , wrote of his scholarly reconstruction of a familys life meticulously drawn from archives and collections of papers in the UK , Russia , Belgium and Israel and family dairies , letters and interviews . Not simply a biographical narrative , Moorehead explains , since woven into it is a vast and rich picture of left wing European Jewry from the founding of the Bund workers union . HIs prodigious historical reach is matched by his affectionate portrait of a family and a people whose fight for justice was based on their own personal knowledge of poverty and exploitation . Personal life . In his interview with Mazower , John Crace wrote Mazower likes walking , football , swimming in Hampstead ponds and dislikes commuting and celebrity culture . Awards and honours . - Dido Sotiriou Award of the Hellenic Authors Society , 2012 - Society of Columbia Graduates Great Teacher Award - 2011 - Honorary doctorate from KU Leuven ( during the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Master of European Studies ) - 2019 Book Awards . - Hitlers Empire : Trilling Award - 2009 - Hitlers Empire : LA Times Book Prize for History - 2009 - Salonica , City of Ghosts : Duff Cooper Prize - 2005 - Salonica , City of Ghosts : John Criticos Prize - 2005 - Salonica , City of Ghosts : Runciman Prize - 2005 - Salonica , City of Ghosts : 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 Storia - 2001 Shortlisted for . - Governing the World : Hessell-Tiltman Prize - 2013 Publications . Mazowers publications include : - The Man Who Was France ( review of Julian Jackson , De Gaulle , Belknap Press / Harvard University Press , 2018 , 887 pp. ) , The New York Review of Books , vol . LXVII , no . 1 ( 16 January 2020 ) , pp . 45–46 , 48 . - What You Did Not Tell : A Russian Past and the Journey Home , ( Penguin , 2018 . ) - Governing the World : The History of an Idea ( Penguin Group , 13 September 2012 . ) - No Enchanted Palace : The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations ( Princeton University Press , Princeton and Oxford 2009 . ) - Hitlers Empire : Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe ( Allen Lane , 2008 ) - Networks of Power in Modern Greece , ( as editor , C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd , 2008 ) - Salonica , City of Ghosts : Christians , Muslims and Jews , 1430–1950 ( HarperCollins , 2004 ) - Ideologies and National Identities : The Case of Twentieth-Century South-Eastern Europe ( as co-editor , Central European University Press , 2003 ) - After the War was Over : Reconstructing the Family , Nation and State in Greece , 1943–1960 ( as an editor , Princeton UP , 2000 ) - The Balkans ( Weidenfeld and Nicolson , 2000 ) from the Universal History series , reprinted as The Balkans : From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day ( Phoenix , 2002 ) - ( Knopf , 1998 ) - The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century : Historical Perspectives ( as editor , Berghahn , 1997 ) - Inside Hitlers Greece : The Experience of Occupation , 1941–44 ( Yale UP , 1993 ) - Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis , Clarendon Press , 1991 ( first published 1989 ) , , also translated in Greek by MIET ( 2002 ) . External links . - Mazowers official webpage - Mazowers page at the Columbia University website - Ethnicity and War in the Balkans- a short article by Mazower - Mazower on the Armenian genocide controversy - Reviews of Mazower books in Foreign Affairs - Jason R . Koepke on a lecture by Mazower - Review of Inside Hitlers Greece on New Books in History - Interview at The Guardian - A League Beneath , a review of No Enchanted Place in the Oxonian Review