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Mark Danner Curriculum Vitae CURRENT AFFILIATIONS Mark Danner Curriculum Vitae CURRENT AFFILIATIONS Chancellor’s Professor of Journalism and English 2011- present University of California, Berkeley James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and 2007 – present the Humanities, Bard College Resident Curator, Telluride Film Festival 2013 - present Contributor, The New York Review of Books 1993 - present Contributor, The New Yorker 2001 – present PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Professor of Politics, Al Quds University 2011- 2012 Abu Dis, Palestine Professor, The Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley 1999 – 2011 Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism and Human Rights, Bard College 2003 – 2007 Director, The Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs, University of California, Berkeley 2002 – 2005 Staff Writer, The New Yorker 1990 – 2001 Writer and Producer, ABC News, Peter Jennings Reporting 1994 - 1995 Story Editor, The New York Times Magazine 1986 - 1990 Senior Editor, Harper’s Magazine 1984 – 1986 -1- www.markdanner.com Editorial Assistant, The New York Review of Books 1981 - 1984 EDUCATION AB, Harvard College June 1981 Modern Literature and Aesthetics, magna cum laude (Class of 1980) Utica Free Academy (Utica, NY) June 1976 Regents Diploma, National Merit Finalist PUBLICATIONS (Books) Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War (Simon and Schuster, 2016) Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (Nation Books, 2009) The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History (New York Review Books, 2006) Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York Review Books, 2004) The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter’s Travels through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount (Melville House, 2004) The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (Vintage, 1994) AWARDS AND HONORS (SELECTED) 2016 – 17 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Named to the two-year fellowship by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, April 2016. 2015 The Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Inaugural Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights, University of Texas Law School, October 22, 2015. 2014 Finalist: Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage, Warsaw, Poland. For The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (Vintage, 1994). 2013 Longreads Best of 2013: The Best Story About Storytelling, For “In Conversation: Robert Silvers,” Interview with Robert Silvers, New York Magazine, April 7, 2013, pp. 26-29. -2- www.markdanner.com 2012 The Best American Magazine Writing, For “Torture,” in “Excerpts from The Encyclopedia of 9/11,” New York, in Sid Holt, ed. (Columbia, 2012). 2011 Hellen Ingram Plummer Lecture, “Living With the New Normal: Human Rights, US Foreign Policy and the 2012 Elections,” Georgia State University, Atlanta, April 19 2010 Tanner Lectures in Human Value, “Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of Exception,” Stanford University, April 15 and 16. 2010 Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic, American Academy in Rome 2008 Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic, American Academy in Rome 2007 Coldtype.net Best Political Essays of the Year. For “Words in a Time of War,” Tomdispatch.com, May 31, 2007. 2007 Richard Leopold Lecture, “Beyond Endless War: Terror, Iraq and the Growth of American Foreign Policy,” Northwestern University, November 1st . 2007 W. Bruce Lincoln Lecture, “In War’s Dark Shadow: Americans, Terror and the Coming of Endless War,” Northern Illinois University, November 14. 2007 The Best American Essays, For “Iraq: The War of the Imagination,” in David Foster Wallace, ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) 2006 Best American Political Writing, For “Taking Stock of the Forever War,” in Royce Fillipin, ed. (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006) 2006 Carey McWilliams Award. Presented by the American Political Science Association "to honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics." 2004 Overseas Press Award. The Madeline Dane Ross Award for “Best international reporting in any medium showing a concern for the human condition.” For Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror. 1999 MacArthur Fellow. Named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in June 1999. 1998 Overseas Press Award. The Ed Cunningham Award for best magazine reporting from abroad. For "Yugoslav Wars,” The New York Review of Books. 1995 DuPont Gold Baton. "While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy," ABC News Peter Jennings Reporting. (Writer and Co-Producer) 1994 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. For The Massacre at El Mozote: A -3- www.markdanner.com Parable of the Cold War. 1994 Emmy Award from Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Story (Program), "While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy," ABC News Peter Jennings Reporting, March 17, 1994. (Producer) 1994 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Special Media Award For Outstanding Coverage of Latin America. For "The Truth of El Mozote," The New Yorker (December 6, 1993) 1993 Overseas Press Award. The Madeline Dane Ross Award for Best International Reporting in any medium showing a concern for the human condition. For "The Truth of El Mozote," The New Yorker (December 6, 1993) 1990 National Magazine Award for Reporting. "A Reporter at Large: Beyond the Mountains, Parts I, II & III," The New Yorker (November 27, December 4 & December 11, 1989. AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS (SELECTED) Member, Council on Foreign Relations, New York 1988 - present Member, The Century Association, New York 1988- present Fellow, New York University Institute of the Humanities 1993 - present Member, PEN American Center for Poets, Playwrights, Essayists and Novelists, New York 1998 – present Member, Board of Trustees, World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco 2004 - 2008 PRIZE JURIES (SELECTED) 2009 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism Juror 2005 The Lettre Ulyssees Award for the Art of Reportage Juror 2004 The J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award Juror 1997 The Hammett Prize Juror -4- www.markdanner.com PUBLICATIONS (Anthologies and Introductions) “State of Siege: Their Torture and Ours,” in The Criterion Collection (2015). “Warring With Words: A Conversation with Mark Danner and Michael Hanne,” in Warring With Words: Narrative and Metaphor in Politics (Psychology Press, 2014). “Torture,” in Sid Holt (ed.), The Best American Magazine Writing 2012 (Columbia University Press, 2012). “Now That We’ve Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence,” in Biswas and Zalloua (ed.), Torture: Power, Democracy and the Human Body (University of Washington, 2011). “Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of Exception,” in Tanner Lectures Vol 30 (University of Utah Press, 2011). “US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites,” in Ross Flippin (ed.), Best American Political Writing 2010 (PublicAffairs, 2009) “Introduction,’” in Philippe-Paul de Ségur, Defeat: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign (New York Review of Books, 2008) “Words in a Time of War” in 2007 Coldtype.net Best Political Essays of the Year, www.coldtype.net “War, fear, and truth“ in Andras Szanto, ed. What Orwell Didn’t Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (PublicAffairs, 2007) “Iraq: The War of the Imagination,” in David Foster Wallace, ed. The Best American Essays, 2007 (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) “Taking Stock of the Forever War,” in Royce Fillipin, ed. Best American Political Writing 2006 (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006) pp. 298-322 “You Can Do Anything with a Bayonet Except Sit on It” (interview) in Tom Engelhardt, Mission Unaccomplished:Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Nation Books, 2006) pp.106 - 128. “Bodies Under Stress,” Catalogue essay accompanying the exhibition “Abu Ghraib: Abuse of Power,” works on paper by Susan Crile. The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York City, September 7 - October 21, 2006. -5- www.markdanner.com “Humanism and Terror (What Are You Going To Do With That?),” in Gary Willis and Nate Hardcastle (editors) The I Hate the 21st Century Reader (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006) pp. 157-171. “Torture and Truth” and “The Logic of Torture,” in Mark Danner, Barbara Ehrenreich, et al., Abu Ghraib: the Politics of Torture (North Atlantic Books, 2004), pp. 1 - 47. "The Massacre at El Mozote," in Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois (editors), Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2003) pp. 334 - 338. "Endgame in Kosovo: Ethnic Cleansing and American Amnesia," in William Joseph Buckley, Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Intervention (Eerdmans 2000), pp 56 – 71. "Staying On In El Salvador: An Introduction," in Larry Towell, El Salvador (DoubleTake - Norton, 1997), pp. 11 – 19. “Iran-Contra,” in Eric J. Schmertz, Natalie Datlof, and Alexej Ugrinsky (editors), President Reagan and the World (Greenwood Press, 1997) “Transatlantic Relations - Confronting the Paradigm Change,” in Alton Frye and Werner Weidenfeld (editors), Europe and America: Between Drift and New Order (Bertelsmann Foundation and Council on Foreign Relations, 1993) PUBLICATIONS (Magazines and Periodicals) “The Venerable W,” Telluride Film Watch, September 1, 2017 “Trump: What He Could Do,” The New York Review of Books, March 23, 2017. “Permanence (After Czeslaw Milosz),” PermanentCollection.com, January 1, 2017. “The Real Trump,” The New York Review of Books, December 22, 2016. “On the Election,” The New York Review of Books, November 10, 2016. “The Magic of Donald Trump,” The New York Review of Books, May 11, 2016. “Standing Their Ground: A View Inside A Ukrainian
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