Award-Winning Journalist and Bard College Professor Mark Danner Named 2016 Carnegie Fellow
 

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.— The Carnegie Corporation of New York has named Mark Danner, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College, as one of its 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Recipients of the award receive up to $200,000 to fund one to two years of scholarly research and writing in the areas of education, law, technology, business, and public policy. The award will support Danner’s reporting and writing project, entitled “Breaking the Borders,” on the dissolving borders of the Middle East. The project is related to his forthcoming book, Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in June.
 
Mark Danner is a writer and reporter who for 25 years has written about politics and foreign affairs, focusing on war and conflict. He has covered, among many other stories, wars and political turmoil in Central America, Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and the Middle East, and, most recently, the story of torture during the War on Terror. Among his books are 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 is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College and Chancellor’s Professor of Journalism and English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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This event was last updated on 05-03-2016

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