Mark Danner
Professor
Class of 1961 Distinguished Chair in Undergraduate Education
Wheeler 229 (English), North Gate Hall B-32 (Journalism)Please contact directly for office hours.
mark@markdanner.comSpecialties
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20th- and 21st-Century British20th- and 21st-Century AmericanNarrative & the Novel
Professional Statement
Mark Danner is a writer and reporter who for three decades has written on politics and foreign affairs, focusing on war and conflict. He has covered, among many other stories, wars and political conflict in Central America, Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and elsewhere in the?Middle East, and, most recently, the story of torture during the War on Terror and the rise of Donald Trump. Danner holds the?Class of 1961 Distinguished?Chair in Undergraduate Education?at the University of California, Berkeley -- where he teaches in the Department of English and in the Graduate School of Journalism --?and the?James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College. Among his books are
Spiral: Trapped in?the Forever War (2016),
Stripping Bare the Body (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 Travels through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount (2004), and
The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (1994). Danner was a longtime staff writer at
The New Yorker and is a frequent contributor to the
New York Review of Books. His work has appeared in
Harper's,
The New York Times,?
The Washington Post,?
Aperture, and many other newspapers and magazines. He co-wrote and helped produce two hour-long documentaries for the ABC News program
Peter Jennings Reporting, and his work has received, among other honors, a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Emmy. In 1999 Danner was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is a member of the Berkeley Collegium, the?Council on Foreign Relations, the Century Association, the World Affairs Council, is an affiliate of the Institute for International Studies at Berkeley and serves as a resident curator at the Telluride Film Festival. He speaks and lectures widely on foreign policy and America's role in the world. His writing and speaking?can be found at
www.markdanner.com.