Marc David Baer

Marc David Baer is an historian and professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Life Baer was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He celebrated his bar mitzvah in Germany. Baer received his Bachelor's of Arts from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

He is a scholar of Middle Eastern and European History. Baer conducts research utilising English, French, German, Greek, Turkish including Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew, Persian and Arabic. He is the author of seven books. Winner, 2021 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies (for a book published in 2020), National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020) The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (New York: Basic Books, 2021), short-listed for the Wolfson History Prize, 2022 Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations (New York: Basic Books, 2026)