Mark Levene is a historian and emeritus fellow at University of Southampton. Levene's work and research focuses on genocide, Jewish history and anthropogenic climate change. His book The Crisis of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912–1953 received the biennial Lemkin Award from the New York-based Institute for the Study of Genocide in 2015. In 2015, Dr. Peter Hilpold, a Professor at the University of Innsbruck reviewed the book. He stated that the book makes a valuable contribution, although the study's foundational assumptions are questioned. Levene does not use the same definition of genocide as found in the UN Genocide Convention. Source: Wikipedia (en)