Mark Lilla

Mark Lilla
Born	1956 (age 68–69) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Spouse	Diana Cooper
Academic background
Education	University of Michigan (BS) Harvard University (MPP, PhD)
Influences	Sir Isaiah Berlin
Academic work
Institutions	New York University University of Chicago Columbia University
Website	marklilla.com

Mark Lilla (born 1956) is an American political scientist, historian of ideas, journalist, and professor of humanities at Columbia University in New York City. A self-described liberal^[1], he typically, though not always, presents views from that perspective.

He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. After holding professorships at New York University and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, he joined Columbia University in 2007 as Professor of the Humanities. He has been awarded fellowships by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Institut d’études avancées (Paris), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the American Academy in Rome. He lectures widely and has delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture in Israel, the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University, and the MacMillan Lectures on Religion, Politics, and Society at Yale University. In 1995 he was inducted into the French Order of Academic Palms.

From 1980-86 he was executive editor of the public policy quarterly, The Public Interest.

He is married to the artist Diana Cooper and is father of Sophie Marie Lilla (1994).