Faculty Profile

Mark Danner

Mark Danner is a writer, journalist and professor who has written for more than two decades on foreign affairs and international conflict. Danner has graduated from Harvard College in June 1981. In 1984 he became senior editor at Harper's Magazine and, two years later, an editor at The New York Times Magazine, where he specialized in foreign affairs and politics.
Mark Danner has written about foreign affairs and American politics covering Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans and the Middle East among other stories. He has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy during the late Cold War and afterward, and about violations of human rights during that time.
His books include Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (2009), The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006), Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror (2004), The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travel's Through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount (2004) and The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (1994).
In 2002, Danner was named Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College.

Mark Danner's website:
http://www.markdanner.com/

Videos of Mark Danner:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mark+danner&search_type=&aq=f


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