Dr. Mark Danner

Biography

Mark Danner has written widely on foreign affairs and politics for decades. He is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, where he has covered war and political conflicts in Central America, Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, and the Middle East, focusing particularly on the narrative of torture in the War on Terror. Danner's expertise encompasses American politics, especially covering the 2000 presidential campaign and the rise of Donald Trump in 2015. He holds the Class of 1961 Distinguished Chair in Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches politics and foreign policy at the Graduate School of Journalism and literature and film in the Department of English. His books include "Spiral: Trapped Forever in War" (2016), "Stripping Bare the Body" (2009), and "Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror" (2004). Danner's writings have also appeared in various prestigious publications such as Harper's and The Washington Post. He has received notable honors, including the National Magazine Award and the Overseas Press Award, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. Danner has been active in discussions on foreign policy and the United States' role in the world and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association.

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