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Mark Bassin
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Mark Bassin is a geographer and specialist on Russian and German geopolitics. He is currently employed as a professor in historical and contemporary studies at Södertörn University.
Mark Bassin was born in 1953. Bassin gained his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983.
He has received personal fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Remarque Institute at New York University, the American Academy in Berlin, the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center in Sapporo, and the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. Between 1 July 1988 and 1 December 1988, he was a research scholar at the Kennan Institute working on challenges to Siberian development.
His research has also been supported by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), NCEEER, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Ford Foundation.
In 1995, he was a recipient of the Chester Penn Higby Prize from the American Historical Association.
From 1996 to 2004, he served as Secretary for the Commission for the History of Geographic Thought of the International Geographical Union.
From 2006 to 2009, his research was supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.
Since 1999, Bassin has been Associate Editor for the journal Geopolitics.
He has been a consultant for the World Economic Forum, and is a founding member of the Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow, in which capacity he meets yearly with the Russian President and members of his government.
In 2017, he was awarded the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
He is an Associate Fellow of the Swedish Institute.
He has taught at UCLA, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and University College London, and held visiting positions at the Universities of Chicago, Copenhagen, and Pau in France. In March 2005, while a visiting professor of geography at University College London, Bassin was invited to Russia as part of a UK expert group to meet with Vladimir Putin.
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