Prof. Dr. Peter A. Mark

Profile

Academic positionEmeritus
Research fieldsEarly Modern History,Art History
Keywordscultural history, West Africa, art history, ivories, pre-colonial
Honours and awards

2024: Awarded Arnold Rubin Prize: best multi-authored book on African Art History

2024: Fellow, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Fra nkfurt, Mai 2024

2023: Gastprofessor, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, Sommersemester

2022: Alexander-von-Humboldt Kurzaufenthalt, Frobenius-Institut, 1 Monat

2021: Alexander-von-Humboldt erneute Forschungsaufenthalt, Frobenius-Institut

2019: Chercheur Invité, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art

2018: Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institut-für-Sozialanthropologie, Halle

2016: Invited Cathedratic Professor, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters

2012: Senior Fellow, Re:work; Arbeit u. Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive, HU, Berlin

2011: Directeur d'Etudes Associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

2006: Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow, Frobenius-Institut, Frankfurt-am-Main

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityMiddletown
InstitutionWesleyan University
InstituteArt Department

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Eike HaberlandFrobenius-Institut, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Mamadou DiawaraInstitut für Ethnologie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Mamadou DiawaraFrobenius-Institut, Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Roland J. HardenbergFrobenius-Institut, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/1983

Programme(s)

1983Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2017Peter Mark, Peter Mark Helman, and Penny Snyder: The Mountains in Art History. Wesleyan University Press, 2017
2013Peter Mark, José da Silva Horta: The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Creation of the Atlantic World. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2002Peter Mark: ‘Portuguese’ Style and Luso-African Identity; precolonial Senegambia, sixteenth to nineteenth century. . Indiana University Press, 2002
1992Peter Mark: The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest: Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks. Cambridge University Press, 1992
1985Peter Mark: A Cultural, Economic, and Religious History of the Basse Casamance since 1500. Steiner Verlag, 1985