Mark Silver

Mark Silver is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research, where he oversees NEH's grants for individuals, including Fellowships, the Public Scholars program, Awards for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Fellowships for Japan Studies. He has previously served as a program officer at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and taught at Middlebury College, Connecticut College, and Colgate University. He is the author of Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937 (University of Hawaii Press, 2008) as well as peer-reviewed articles and book reviews in Japanese studies. He holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University.