Sharon Macdonald

Sharon Jeanette Macdonald (born in 1961) is a British anthropologist and museologist.

Career

In 1987, Macdonald received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford[1] and subsequently held posts at Brunel University and Keele University.[2] From 1996 until 2002, she was a lecturer, then from 2002 to 2005 a reader in cultural anthropology, both at the University of Sheffield.[2] From 2006 to 2012, she held a position as professor of social anthropology at the University of Manchester.[3] In 2011, she was a visiting professor at Peking University.[1] She was appointed as Anniversary Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of York in 2012.[4] There, she was a co-investigator and led the "Profusion" theme in the Heritage Futures research project.[5] In 2015, she accepted an Alexander von Humboldt professorship at the Humboldt University of Berlin.[6]

She established the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH),[7] funded by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Museum of Natural History Berlin, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Humboldt University of Berlin.[8]

She is a professor at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin.[9] She is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and the Royal Historical Society.[10]

Research

Macdonald's research is focused particularly on how societies mediate their heritage through museum exhibitions.[7] In Germany, she studied this in relation to Nazism in Nuremberg, promoted by a Humboldt scholarship from 2000 until 2006.[11] More recently, she has focused on the representation of Islam in museums, alongside more general topics of looting and colonialism in museums.[1][12]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Sharon Jeanette Macdonald". Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Macdonald Sharon". Academy of Europe. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  3. ^ "Sharon Macdonald: Academic Biography". CARMAH. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Sharon Macdonald". Sociology, The University of York. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Sharon Macdonald - Co-investigator". Heritage Futures. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Prof. Dr. Sharon Macdonald". Institut für Europäische Ethnologie. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  7. ^ a b "Macdonald, Sharon". CARMAH. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  8. ^ "Our Centre". CARMAH. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Prof. Dr. Sharon Macdonald". Matters of Activity. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  10. ^ "Sharon Macdonald". Department of Sociology, University of York. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
  11. ^ Macdonald, Sharon (August 2006). "Mediating heritage: Tour guides at the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg". Tourist Studies. 6 (2): 119–138. doi:10.1177/1468797606071473. ISSN 1468-7976.
  12. ^ "Speak21b: Taking responsibility for colonial heritage in Europe? Perspectives from organisational ethnographies II". Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK. Retrieved 6 May 2026.

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