Mark Danner
Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Professor, The Graduate School of Journalism,
University of California, Berkeley 1999 – present
Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism and Human Rights,
Bard College 2003 – present
James Clarke Chace Professor
of Foreign Affairs, Politics, and Humanities
Bard College 2007 – present
Contributor,
EDUCATION
AB, Harvard College June 1981
Modern Literature and Aesthetics,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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
Editorial Assistant, The New York Review of Books 1981 - 1984
www.markdanner.com
AWARDS AND HONORS (SELECTED)
2007 Coldtype.net Best Political Essays of the Year. For “Words in a Time of War,”
Tomdispatch.com, May 31, 2007.2006 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 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," T
he New Yorker (November 27, December 4 & December 11, 1989).AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS (SELECTED)
Member, Board of Trustees, World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco 2004 - present
Member, The Century Association, New York 1998 - present
Member, PEN American Center for Poets, Playwrights, Essayists and Novelists, New York 1998 – present
Fellow, New York University Institute of the Humanities 1993 - present
Member, the Council on Foreign Relations, New York 1994 - present (Term Member 1988-1993)
PRIZE JURIES (SELECTED)
2005 The Lettre Ulyssees Award for the Art of Reportage Juror
2004 The J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award Juror
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Beyond the Mountains: The Legacy of Duvalier
(Pantheon, forthcoming.)The Saddest Story: America, the Alliance and the Catastrophe in the Balkans
(Pantheon, forthcoming)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)Anthologies and Introductions (Selected)
“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.
“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)Magazines and Periodicals
“‘The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam’: The Crawford Transcript,”
The New York Review of Books, November 7, 2007.“War, fear, and truth,”
Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2007.“Words in a Time of War (abridged),”
Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2007.“Words in a Time of War,”
Tomdispatch.com, , May 31, 2007.“Iraq: The War of the Imagination,”
The New York Review of Books“Taking Stock of the Forever War,”
The New York Times Magazine, September 11, 2005.“Iraq’s Buried History: The Memo, the Press, and the War,” Exchange,
The New York Review of Books, August 11, 2005.“The Iraq Pretext: Why the Memo Matters,” Exchange,
The New York Review of Books, July 14, 2005.“Humanism and Terror (What Are You Going To Do With That?),” Commencement Address at the University of California, Berkeley,
The New York Review of Books, June 23, 2005.“The Secret Way to War,”
The New York Review of Books, June 9, 2005.“Iraq: The Real Election,”
The New York Review of Books, , April 28, 2005.“Bush’s Victory: Second Thoughts,” Exchange,
The New York Review of Books, March 10, 2005.“Torture and Gonzales: An Exchange,” Exchange,
The New York Review of Books, February 10, 2005.“We Are All Torturers Now,”
The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, January 6, 2005.“How Bush Really Won,”
The New York Review of Books, January 3, 2005.“Seeing the World: James Chace, 1931-2004,” The Lives They Lived,
The New York Times Magazine, December 26, 2004.“A Doctrine Left Behind,”
The New York Times, , Op-Ed Page, November 21, 2004.“The Election and America’s Future,”
The New York Review of Books, November 4, 2004.“Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story,”
The New York Review of Books, October 7, 2004.“The Logic of Torture,”
The New York Review of Books, , June 24, 2004.“Torture and Truth,”
The New York Review of Books, June 10, 2004.“Delusions in Baghdad: An Exchange,” Exchange,
The New York Review of Books, February 12, 2004.“Delusions in Baghdad,” The New York Review of Books, December 18, 2003.
“Iraq: How Not to Win a War,”
The New York Review of Books, September 23, 2003.“The Erotic Pull of the Strange: An Introduction,”
Zoetrope All-Story, Summer 2003.“The Struggles of Democracy and Empire,”
The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, October 8, 2002.“The Battlefield in the American Mind,”
The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, October 21, 2001.“The Road to Illegitimacy,”
The New York Review of Books, February 22, 2001.“Scandal and the Road to Deadlock,”
The New York Review of Books, December 21, 2000.“The Lost Olympics,”
The New York Review of Books, November 2, 2000.“Clinton and Colombia: The Privilege of Folly,”
The New York Review of Books, October 5, 2000.“The Shame of Political TV,”
The New York Review of Books , September 2, 2000.“Long Memoris: Srebrenica, A Cry from the Grave,” PBS Frontline, Essay, January 2000.
“Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory,” The New York Review of Books, July 15, 1999.
“The Endgame in Kosovo,”
The New York Review of Books, May 6, 1999.“’Members of the Club’: A biography of the Bundy brothers, the brilliant Washington insiders who brought us Vietnam,”
New York Times Book Review, April 4, 1999.“Operation Storm,”
The New York Review of Books, October 22, 1998.“Bosnien: Warum Der Westen Zuschaute,”
Das Magazin/ Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich), October 2, 1998. [entire issue]“In the Killing Fields of Bosnia,”
New York Review of Books, September 24, 1998.“Slouching Toward Dayton,”
New York Review of Books, April 23, 1998.“Bosnia: The Great Betrayal,”
New York Review of Books, March 26, 1998.“Bosnia: Breaking the Machine,”
New York Review of Books, February 19, 1998.“Marooned in the Cold War: And Exchange between Mark Danner and George F.
Kennan, Strobe Talbott and Lee H. Hamilton,”
World Policy Journal, Volume 4, XIV, No1, Spring 1998.“Bosnia: The Turning Point,”
New York Review of Books, February 5, 1998.“Clinton, the UN, and the Bosnia Disaster,”
New York Review of Books, December 18, 1997.“America and the Bosnia Genocide,”
New York Review of Books, December 4, 1997.“The US and the The Yugoslav Catastrophe,”
New York Review of Books, November 20, 1997.“Marooned in the Cold War: An Exchange between Richard C. Holbrooke and Mark Danner,” World Policy Journal, Volume 3 XIV, No4, Winter 1997.
“Marooned in the Cold War: America, the Alliance, and the Quest for a Vanished World,”
World Policy Journal, Volume 3 XIV, No3, Fall 1997.“Guardian Angels,” Talk of the Town,
The New Yorker, November 25, 1996.“Hypocrisy in Action: What’s the real Iran-Bosnia scandal?” Comment,
The New Yorker, May 13, 1996.“Running Free: Mark Danner on an athlete’s trials.” Showcase,
The New Yorker, February 26 & March 4, 1996.“Perilous Fight: Haiti’s problems will not yield as easily as its Army,” Comment,
The New Yorker, September 26, 1994.“House on Fire: America’s Haitian Crisis,” (hour-long television documentary, cowritten with Peter Jennings), Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, July 27, 1994.
“Through A Child’s Eyes: The Yugoslav War,” Portfolio Caption,
The New Yorker, April 4, 1994.“While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy,” (hour-long television documentary, co-written with David Gelber), Peter Jennings Reporting, ABC News, March 30, 1994.
“The Truth of ElMozote,” A Reporter at Large,
The New Yorker, , December 6, 1993.“The Fall of the Prophet,”
The New York Review of Books“The Prophet,”
The New York Review of Books (review-essay, part 2 of 3), November 18, 1993.“Haiti on the Verge,”
The New York Review of Books (review-essay, part 1 of 3), November 4, 1993.“The Price in Haiti,” Comment,
The New Yorker , October 25, 1993."How The Foreign Policy Machine Broke Down,"
The New York Times Magazine, March 7, 1993.“During the nineteen-eighties, while Iraqis and Iranians killed one another by the hundreds of thousands...,” Comment,
The New Yorker, August 17, 1992."Postcards From History," Essay,
Aperture, Spring 1992.“Less than a year after Americans paraded in the streets to celebrate victory in the Gulf War...,” Comment,
The New Yorker, May 25, 1992."With the publication of Oliver North's memoirs...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, December 30, 1991."Two weeks ago, when Haitian soldiers deposed their country's President...," Notes and Comment, The New Yorker, October 21, 1991.
"To Haiti, With Love and Squalor,"
The New York Times Book Review, August 11, 1991."It is an axiom of governance that power, once acquired, is seldom freely relinquished...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, July 29, 1991."Like an untreated infection within the political system, the Iran-Contra affair continues to grow...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, June 17, 1991."Three months after United States Marines liberated Kuwait City, the victors of Operation Desert Storm...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, June 3, 1991."In November, a year after the Berlin Wall was breached, American troops and airmen by the thousand...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, January 21, 1991."For almost four months, the United States has been sleepwalking toward war...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, December 10, 1990."A year after the Berlin Wall was breached and the 'post-Cold War era' proclaimed...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, November 19, 1990."Though the rhetoric surrounding the Middle East crisis has softened somewhat since the threats of mid-August...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, October 1, 1990."The great public scandals of the last decade are remarkable, above all, for their inconclusiveness, their strange resistance to closure...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, September 24, 1990."Americans tend to examine distant regimes, and the commitments our government has made to them, only during times of crisis...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, September 10, 1990."Just past ten on a sunny morning last month in Port-au-Prince...," Notes and Comment,
The New Yorker, July 16, 1990."Beyond the Mountains," A Reporter at Large,
The New Yorker, December 11, 1989 (Part III)."Beyond the Mountains," A Reporter at Large,
The New Yorker, December 4, 1989 (Part II);"Beyond the Mountains," A Reporter at Large,
The New Yorker, November 27, 1989 (Part I)"The Struggle for a Democratic Haiti,"
The New York Times Magazine, June 21, 1987."A World Without Nuclear Weapons?" Introductory Essay,
The New York Times Magazine, April 5, 1987."Though Duvalier Is Gone, Haiti Still Needs Help,"
The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, May 19, 1986."What Does Government Owe the Poor?" Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, April 1986."How Not to Fix the Schools," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, February 1986."Gossiping About Gossip," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, January 1986."In the Age of Cocaine," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, December 1985."AIDS: What Is To Be Done?" Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, October 1985."Sports: How Dirty A Game?" Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, September 1985."Will Books Survive?" Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, August 1985."The Nuclear Dilemma (II): Is Arms Control Obsolete?" Introductory Forum Essay, Harper's Magazine, July 1985.
Is There A Way Out? Nuclear Strategy and the Plausibity of Hope,"
Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, June 1985."Images of Fear: On the Perception and Reality of Crime," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, May 1985."On the Consequences of Vietnam," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, April 1985."Television Looks At Itself," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, March 1985."Who Pays For Economic Change?" Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, February 1985."Can the Press Tell the Truth?" Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, January 1985."Prophets of the Holy Land: Scenes From the Future of the Middle East," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, December 1984."The Place of Pornography," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, November 1984."Terrorism and the Media," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, October 1984."Should the CIA Fight Secret Wars?" Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, September, 1984."Naming the Land: Poetic Variations on An American Theme," Introductory Forum Essay,
Harper's Magazine, August, 1984.APPEARANCES IN DOCUMENTARY FILMS (SELECTED)
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
, Rory Kennedy, dir. (HBO/Moxie Firecracker Films, 2007)The Torture Question
, Michael Kirk, dir. (Frontline/PBS, 2005)A Few Bad Apples,
Morris Karp, prod. (The Fifth Estate/CBC News, 2005)Rush to War
, Robert Taicher, dir. (RTW Films, 2004)The War Behind Closed Doors
, Michael Kirk, dir. (Frontline/PBS, 2003)PUPUBLIC APPEARANCES (SELECTED)