Mark Silver

Mark Silver is a Program Officer in International Programs and US Programs. In addition to overseeing the Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE), he assists in the administration of the ACLS Fellowships program and in the development of new programs. Prior to joining ACLS he was a program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where he led the Public Scholars program and managed the NEH’s joint fellowships program with the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC). He is the author of Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008) as well as peer-reviewed journal articles and book reviews in the field of Japanese literature. He holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University, and has taught at Colgate University, Connecticut College, and Middlebury College.