Mark M. Janko has a Bachelor’s degree in history and literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as a Master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Denver. His other historical interests include war, genocide, and human rights. He has conducted research in Germany, Poland, the DRC, Rwanda, and Cambodia (where he used to live). He has served as a member of a human rights delegation to Cambodia and is a former member of the “Dialogue on Defense” project at CU Boulder. Now in Chapel Hill, NC, he is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography and an MS in Biostatistics (his liberal arts education included a lot of math). Much of his research these days focuses on developing and using spatial-statistical methods to try to understand how and why drug-resistant malaria is spreading in sub-Saharan Africa.

Janko is a co-author of Saga of the Sun Setters Volume I and Saga of the Sunsetters Volume II in the Eagles Over The Pacific series.