Mark Thurner

Mark Thurner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, History and Humanities at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) and Emeritus Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Florida. He held the post of Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of London's Institute of Latin American Studies, the UK's flagship centre in the field, before it was axed by the administration of the School of Advanced Study. He has also held visiting positions at the Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, El Colegio de Mexico, and the University of Turin.

Mark's books include The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography (Routledge, 2025), The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge (Routledge, 2023), New World Objects of Knowledge: A Cabinet of Curiosities (University of London, 2021), The First Wave of Decolonization (Routledge, 2019), El nombre del abismo: meditaciones sobre la historia de la historia (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2012), History’s Peru: The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography (University Press of Florida, 2011), Republicanos Andinos (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2006), Sebastian Lorente: Escritos fundacionales de historia peruana (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2005), After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas (Duke, 2003), and From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru (Duke 1997).

Mark is the recipient of numerous prestigious grants and fellowships, including the Leverhulme Trust International Research Network Grant, the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award (twice), the Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, the Mendel Fellowship at the Lilly Library, conference grants from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., the Advanced Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council, the International Dissertation Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, and other awards and prizes.