Sharon Macdonald#
Membership Number: | 6779 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
Elected: | 2024 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | https://www.kulturtechnik.hu-berlin.de/en/about-us/staff/sharon-macdonald/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-5941-4388 |
Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-macdonald-6225576/?originalSubdomain=de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 Co-Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Centre for Advanced Study inherit. heritage in transformation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2021 Director of the Hermann von Helmholtz Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2015 Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Social Anthropology, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2012 2015 Anniversary Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of York, UK
- 2006 - 2012 Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
- 2005 - 2006 Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Sheffield
- 2002 - 2005 Reader in Anthropology and Sociology, University of Sheffield
- 1998 - 2002 Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology, University of Sheffield
- 1996 - 1998 Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology, University of Sheffield
- 1995 - 1996 Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Sociology, University of Keele
- 1990 - 1995 Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Sociology, University of Keele
- 1988 - 1990 Research Fellow, Centre for Innovation, Culture and Technology, Brunel University
- 1985 - 1990 Lecturer and college lecturer (part time), University of Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Museums
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Heritage
- Memory politics
- Europe
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Visiting Professorship, Tsinghua University
- 2022 Award of Käte Hamburger Kolleg from BMBF
- 2021 Honorary Professorship, University of Aberdeen
- 2019 Honorary Professorship, University of York
- 2019 Honorary Research Associate, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
- 2017 Elected member of Academic Net 'Excellent women in science'
- 2015 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- 2011 Visiting Professor, Peking University
- 1990 Elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute