Contact details
- Name:
- Professor Mark Thurner
- Qualifications:
- BA (hons) [Beloit College]; MA [University of Wisconsin-Madison]; PhD [University of Wisconsin-Madison]
- Position:
- Professor of Latin American Studies, University of London; Professor Emeritus, University of Florida
- Institute:
- Institute of Latin American Studies
- Location:
- Room 227 Second floor, Senate House (South Block)
- Phone:
- 0278628808
- Email address:
- mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://ulondon.academia.edu/MarkThurner
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Cultural memory, Globalization & Development, History, Language and Literature (Spanish), Philosophy
- Research keywords:
- Historiography, Museum Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Latin American History, Anthropology, Theory of History
- Regions:
- Europe, South America
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Dr. Mark Thurner is an internationally recognized senior scholar in the fields of Latin American History and Anthropology. Mark joined ILAS and SAS in 2014. His current research concerns the history and theory of historiography and museography in Latin America and Europe. He is particularly keen to supervise promising postgraduates developing pioneering research programmes in intellectual and cultural history, the history of anthropology and of natural history, postcolonial studies, and museum studies.
- Languages:
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Spoken Written Spanish Fluent Fluent
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 01-Dec-2015 Historical Theory through a Peruvian Looking-Glass Journal articles
History and Theory 54:4
01-Dec-2015 In the Museum of the Museum Journal articles
01-Jul-2015 An Old New World for the History of Historiography Journal articles
Storia della Storiografia 67:1
- Research Projects & Supervisions
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Research projects:
Details Border Crossings: Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge Institute of Latin American Studies
Project period: 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Dec-2019Research interests: History, Philosophy