Mark is an Associate Professor in the Department of Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Public Policy. He joined the ANU in early 2024 from the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, where he had been an Associate Professor of Politics and former Deputy Head of the National School of Arts, overseeing the School of Arts in Victoria. Prior to ACU, Mark was a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 2011 to 2013. Trained as a political scientist and lawyer, Mark holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Queensland, which awarded him his PhD in 2010. He is a former Vice President of the Australian Political Studies Association.

Together with Benjamin Moffitt, Annika Werner, Rachel Busbridge, and Simon Tormey, Mark is currently working on an Australian Research Council funded Discovery project, Populism’s Heartlands: Place, Identity, and Localism in Populist Politics ($312,265 AUD).