Mark Thurner
Office: 360 Grinter Hall
Phone: (352) 392-4672
Fax : (352) 392-6927
Email: mthurner@history.ufl.edu
Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mthurner/
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Associate Professor Mark Thurner received his Ph.D. in 1993 in Anthropology
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his M.A. in 1987 from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, and his B.A. in 1981 from Beloit College. He joined
the University of Florida Department of History in 1993 after teaching at
the City College of New York. His publications include 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), From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial
Nationmaking in Andean Peru (Duke 1997). He has recently taught graduate
seminars in Postcolonial Theory, Postcolonial Spanish American History, and
Historiography, and upper division courses on Nationalism, Revolution, and
the modern history of the Andes and Mexico. He
also teaches general surveys of Latin America.
Professor Thurner was awarded the Department’s Norman Wilensky Award for excellence in graduate teaching in 1999. Thurner is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award (twice), a Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, a 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, 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.
Professor Thurner has been instrumental in the development of a world history curriculum in the Department, and he is an active affiliate of the University’s Center for Latin American Studies, and a graduate professor in the Anthropology Department.
