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Mark A. Lewis is an Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY), affiliated with the Department of History under the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He also serves on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center's History Ph.D. program.
Prof. Lewis holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a B.A. from Stanford University's "Modern Thought and Literature" program. His research focuses on the history of international criminal law, comparative genocide studies, evolution of policing, and crimes against humanity frameworks.
His seminal work, The Birth of the New Justice, examines the creation of international criminal courts post-WWI and WWII, analyzing treaties like the Geneva Conventions (1948) and Genocide Convention. He co-authored the Holocaust survivor oral history Himmler’s Jewish Tailor with Jacob Frank. His academic contributions include archival research across Austria, Croatia, Germany, and Poland, utilizing documents in German, Croatian, French, and Polish.
Prof. Lewis has received prestigious awards: the Wiener Library Fraenkel Prize (2013) and the Bronisław Geremek Prize (2015). His publications explore topics like Nazi-era policing, interwar surveillance, and legal accountability frameworks.
