Dr Mark Levene

History
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Southampton
S017 1BJ

Position: Reader

Location: 65/2055
Extension: 24867
Telephone: (023) 8059 4867
Fax: (023) 8059 3458
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Research interests

The Meaning of Genocide Though my background and teaching has been particularly in modern Jewish history, my major focus in the last decade has been in plotting and attempting to interpret the pattern of genocide in recent history. This has meant I've committed what for many historians are two cardinal sins - eschewing both the path of primary research and specialisation in a specific area study. The justification is that I'm trying to see the wood for the trees, or put more pedantically, a broader overview of historical development through the prism of a particularly disturbing but persistent by-product. I feel strongly that the phenomenon cannot be viewed as a series of isolated aberrations, but rather as evidence of a much more serious systemic dysfunction in the nature of western-led international society as it has emerged in the last two to three hundred years. Currently I'm putting all this together in what I hope will be a major book Genocide in the age of the nation state. The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide But as the work has developed I've also been increasingly informed by my previous existence as an environmental and peace activist to see beyond the specificity of genocide to the wider underpinnings of conflict and crisis in the modern world. If this sounds a little too contemporary, not to say interdisciplinary, I can only say in my defence, that I see myself approaching all this as a historian!

Areas where I can offer Postgraduate Supervision:

Genocide or other general causes of conflict and crisis in recent (or not so recent) history. Issues of minority rights, whether Jewish or non-Jewish, most particularly as they relate to the stress of war and military service. State-ethnic community relations under the British mandate in Palestine and the transition from Ottoman Empire to successor Middle eastern states.

Contact

Email: ml1@soton.ac.uk

Publications

Genocide in the Age of the Nation State vol. 1: The Meaning of Genocide (London and New York, 2005)*
Genocide in the Age of the Nation State vol. 2: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide (London and New York, 2005) (for details see www.ibtauris.com)
'A Dissenting voice; or how current assumptions of deterring and preventing genocide may be looking at the problem through the wrong end of the telescope', Journal of Genocide Research, 6:2 and 3 (2004) , pp. 153-166, 431-445.
' Battling demons or banal exterminism? Apocalypse and statecraft in modern mass murder', Journal of Human Rights, 3:1 (2004), pp. 67-81.
' " Ni grec, ni bulgare, ni turc" - Salonika Jewry and the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913', Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts, vol. 2, (2003), pp. 65-97.
'The Experience of Armenian and Romanian Genocide: 1915-16 and 1941-42,' in Hans-Lukas Kieser and Dominik J. Schaller, (eds.), Der Voelkermord an den Armeniern und die Shoah (Zurich, 2002),pp. 423-462.
Port Jewry of Salonika: Between neo-colonialism and nation-state,' in David Cesarani (ed.), Port Jews, Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950 (London, 2002).
'The Changing Face of Mass Murder: massacre, genocide and post-genocide,' International Social Science Journal, 174 (2002), pp. 443-52.
w/ Penny Roberts (eds.), The Massacre in History (Oxford, 1999)

Teaching responsibilities for Dr Mark Levene
Module title	Module code	Discipline	Role
In the Face of Humanity	HIST2054	History	Course leader

Publications from e–Prints Soton

	Cromwell, D. and Levene, M. (eds.) (2007) Surviving climate change: the struggle to avert global catastrophe, London, UK, Pluto Press, 292pp.
	Levene, Mark (2005) Genocide in the age of the nation state, vol. 2: the rise of the west and the coming of genocide, London, UK, I.B. Tauris, 480pp.
	Levene, Mark (2005) Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide, London, UK; New York, US, I.B.Tauris; Palgrave Macmillan, 288pp.
	Levene, Mark (2004) A dissenting voice: or how current assumptions of deterring and preventing genocide may be looking at the problem through the wrong end of the telescope, part I. Journal of Genocide Research, 6, (2), 153-166. (doi:10.1080/1462352042000225921)
	Levene, Mark (2004) A dissenting voice: part II. Journal of Genocide Research, 6, (3), 431-445. (doi:10.1080/14623520420002658873)
	Levene, Mark (2004) Battling demons or banal exterminism? Apocalypse and statecraft in modern mass murder. Journal of Human Rights, 3, (1), 67-81. (doi: 10.1080/1475483042000185233)
	Levene, Mark (2003) “Ni grec, ni bulgare, ni turc” - Salonika Jewry and the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913. In, Diner, Dan (ed.) Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts. Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 65-97.
	Levene, Mark (2002) Port Jewry of Salonika: between neo-colonialism and nation-state. In, Cesarani, David (ed.) Port Jews, Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950. London, UK, Frank Cass, 125-154. (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies).
	Levene, Mark (2002) The experience of genocide: Armenia 1915–16 and Romania 1941–42. In, Kieser, Hans-Lukas and Schaller, Dominik J. (eds.) Der Voelkermord an den Armeniern und die Shoah., Chronos, 423-462.