Mark Danner

Mark Danner
Danner in the garden of his New York apartment
Born (1958-11-10) November 10, 1958 (age 65)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Occupation(s)Author, journalist, professor
OrganizationsUC Berkeley
Bard College
The New Yorker
The New York Review of Books
Websitemarkdanner.com

Mark David Danner (born November 10, 1958) is an American writer, journalist, and educator. He is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Danner specializes in U.S. foreign affairs, war and politics, and has written books and articles on Haiti, Central America, the former Yugoslavia, and the Middle East, as well as on American politics, covering every presidential election since 2000. In 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.[1]

As of 2018, Danner holds the Class of 1961 Distinguished Chair in Undergraduate Education at UC Berkeley[2] and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College.

Danner is a member of the Berkeley Collegium, the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Affairs Council of Northern California, and the Century Association, and is a fellow of the Institute of the Humanities at New York University. In 2008 he was named the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome, a post he took up again in 2010. Danner has had a longtime association with the Telluride Film Festival, where he introduces films and conducts interviews; in 2013, he was named resident curator there.[3]

  1. ^ "Fellows List - July 1999 - MacArthur Foundation". September 1, 2006. Archived from the original on September 1, 2006. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  2. ^ Chuck Harris. "Faculty–UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism". Journalism.berkeley.edu. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  3. ^ Danner, Mark. "Bio". markdanner.com. Retrieved January 14, 2014.