Mark Levene

Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History at the University of Southampton and in the Parkes Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish relations. His writing ranges across genocide, Jewish history and environmental and peace issues especially focusing on anthropogenic climate change. His most recent work includes the two volume The Crisis of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912-1953 (Oxford, 2013) for which he won the 2015 Lemkin award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, New York, and with Rob...See more

Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History at the University of Southampton and in the Parkes Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish relations. His writing ranges across genocide, Jewish history and environmental and peace issues especially focusing on anthropogenic climate change. His most recent work includes the two volume The Crisis of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912-1953 (Oxford, 2013) for which he won the 2015 Lemkin award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, New York, and with Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts (eds.), History at the end of the world? History, climate change and the possibility of closure (Penrith, 2010). He is co-founder of Crisis Forum http: //www.crisis-forum.org.uk and founder of the Rescue! History http: //www.rescue-history.org.uk/, independent academic networks. See less