Mark Elliott is Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University and the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
As Vice Provost, Elliott oversees and works to advance international academic initiatives, extending the global reach of Harvard’s research and teaching activities. In this capacity, Elliott serves as the University’s representative in negotiating agreements with foreign governments, receiving senior-level international delegations, and representing Harvard to peer institutions and alumni worldwide. In addition, he shares responsibility for supporting the community of international students, scholars, and faculty in Cambridge and Boston, as well as for guiding Harvard’s overall global strategy and sustaining its ongoing development as a global university.
Elliott is an authority on the last four centuries of Chinese history, in particular the Qing period (1636-1911). His research encompasses the history of relations between China and its nomadic frontier, with special attention to questions of ethnicity and empire. His first book, The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China, is a pioneering study in the “New Qing History,” an approach emphasizing the imprint of Inner Asian traditions upon China’s last imperial state. He is also the author of Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World, and has published more than twenty-five scholarly articles. He serves on numerous editorial boards, and was for three years the director of the Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies.
A graduate of Yale (BA 1981 summa cum laude, MA 1984), Elliott earned his PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at the University of Michigan before coming to Harvard in 2003.
歐立德(Mark Elliott)是哈佛大學國際事務副校長，也是哈佛大學東亞語言與文明系中國與內亞史教授、歷史學家。作為副校長，歐立德負責監督和推動國際學術活動，擴大哈佛大學研究和教學活動的全球影響力。擔任哈佛大學與外國政府談判協議的代表，負責接待高級別的國際代表團，並代表哈佛大學與世界各地的同行機構和校友進行交流。此外，他還負責支援劍橋和波士頓的國際學生、學者和教師社區，以及指導哈佛大學的全球整體戰略，推動其作為一所全球性大學的持續發展。
歐立德是研究近四個世紀中國歷史的權威，尤其是清朝時期(1636-1911)。他的研究涵蓋了中國與遊牧民族邊境關係的歷史，特別關注種族和帝國問題。他的第一本書《滿洲之道：八旗與晚期中華帝國的族群認同》是對“新清史”的開創性研究，強調了亞洲內部傳統對中國最後一個帝制國家的影響。此外還著有《乾隆帝》等著作，發表學術論文逾二十五篇。他在多個編輯委員會任職，並曾擔任費正清中國研究中心主任。歐立德畢業于耶魯大學（1981年作為“優異生”獲得文學學士學位，1984年獲得文學碩士學位），在加州大學伯克利分校獲得歷史學博士學位（1993年）。在2003年來到哈佛大學之前，他曾在加州大學聖巴巴拉分校和密西根大學任教。