Mark A. Raider is an American historian. He is a professor of modern Jewish history at the University of Cincinnati. Raider received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He has previously served as chair of the Judaic Studies Department at the University at Albany, SUNY and was founding director of its Center for Jewish Studies. He moved to Cincinnati in 2006.