Sharon Macdonald

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Sharon Macdonald is affiliated with the following schools: University of York, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Sheffield, University of Oxford, Keele University, University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Sharon Jeanette Macdonald is a British anthropologist and museologist. Career In 1987, Macdonald received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford and subsequently taught at Brunel University and Keele University. From 1996 until 2004, she was a lecturer, then 2005 a reader in cultural anthropology, both at the University of Sheffield. In 2006, she held a position as professor of social anthropology at the University of Manchester. She was appointed as anniversary professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of York in 2015. There, she led the "Profusion" theme in the Heritage Futures project. In 2015, she accepted the call for an Alexander von Humboldt professorship at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Together with the support of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Natural History Museum in Berlin, she established the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage . Apart from the Alexander von Humboldt professorship, she was appointed as a regular professor at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Beside her professorial appointments, she is participating in the collaborative formation of the Humboldt Forum.

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Sharon Macdonald's Published Works

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Memorylands: Heritage and Identity in Europe Today (2013) (342)
Companion to Museum Studies (2006) (328)
Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond (2008) (297)
Museums, national, postnational and transcultural identities (2003) (231)
Theorizing Museums Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World (1997) (174)
Undesirable Heritage: Fascist Material Culture and Historical Consciousness in Nuremberg (2006) (156)
The Politics of Display (1998) (151)
A PEOPLE’S STORY : Heritage, identity and authenticity (2002) (139)
Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum (2002) (128)
Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities and the Gaelic Renaissance (1999) (118)
Expanding museum studies: an introduction (2006) (105)
Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition: An introduction to the politics of display (2010) (96)
Accessing audiences: visiting visitor books (2015) (81)
Heritage Futures (2020) (70)
Civic seeing : museums and the organization of vision (2006) (69)
Science on display: the representation of scientific controversy in museum exhibitions (1992) (55)
Mediating heritage (2006) (54)
Inside European identities : ethnography in Western Europe (1996) (52)
British Social Anthropology (2001) (52)
Rewriting the museums' fictions: Taxonomies, stories and readers (1990) (50)
Images of Women in Peace and War: Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspectives (1988) (49)
REASSEMBLING NUREMBERG, REASSEMBLING HERITAGE (2009) (44)
Is ‘Difficult Heritage’ Still ‘Difficult’? (2015) (42)
Inside European Identities (1993) (42)
Introduction: Experiments in Exhibition, Ethnography, Art, and Science (2008) (40)
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology (2016) (36)
Exhibition as film (2008) (35)
Cultural imagining among museum visitors: A case study (1992) (34)
Unsettling memories: Intervention and controversy over difficult public heritage (2009) (34)
Words in Stone? (2006) (34)
Creating Historical Memory: English-Canadian Women and the Work of History (1999) (33)
Drawing the lines — gender, peace and war: an introduction (1987) (32)
Consuming science: public knowledge and the dispersed politics of reception among museum visitors (1995) (32)
Technology and Culture in Expo'92 (1997) (28)
Images of Women in Peace and War (1987) (27)
Enchantment and its dilemmas: The museum as a ritual site (2005) (24)
De-growing museum collections for new heritage futures (2018) (23)
Heritage and identity in Europe today (2014) (18)
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies (2013) (17)
Supermarket science?: Consumers and ‘the public understanding of science’ (2010) (16)
Expanding Museum Studies (2007) (15)
Museum Europe: Negotiating Heritage (2008) (14)
Presencing Europe's Pasts (2012) (14)
Misunderstanding science?: Authorising science: public understanding of science in museums (1996) (13)
New Constellations of Difference in Europe's 21st-Century Museumscape (2016) (12)
Approaches to European Historical Consciousness (2000) (10)
The Gaelic Renaissance and Scotland's Identities (1999) (10)
Refugees Welcome ? Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany (9)
Experiments in Exhibition, Ethnography, Art and Science (2007) (9)
Boadicea: warrior, mother and myth (1987) (8)
Block Play: The Complete Guide to Learning and Playing with Blocks (2001) (8)
The Philosophy of Enchantment: Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Anthropology (2010) (7)
Lost in Time and Space: ancient Egypt in Museums (2003) (7)
‘For ever, for everyone …’ (2020) (7)
Posing Questions about the Purposes of Museums (1990) (7)
No Museum is an Island: Ethnography beyond Methodological Containerism (2018) (6)
What not to collect? (2018) (6)
Reflections on the Impact of ICT on Teacher Education (2001) (6)
Ex-siting and insighting : ethnographic engagements with place and community (2011) (5)
On ‘Old Things’: The Fetishization of Past Everyday Life (2020) (5)
Domains of Paracompactness and Regularity (1972) (4)
Sociological Review: Introduction (2005) (4)
Trafficking in history: multitemporal practices (2002) (4)
Introduction: Engaging Anthropological Legacies toward Cosmo-optimistic Futures? (2017) (4)
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies: Preface (2015) (4)
Introduction : Creativity or temporality? (2005) (4)
What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things (2019) (3)
Ethnography in the Science Museum, London (2020) (3)
Memory, materiality and tourism (2008) (3)
Visitors, Learning, Interacting (2006) (3)
Reviewing museum studies in the age of the reader (2006) (3)
Materializing Sheffield: Place, Culture, Identity, Sheffield: Place, Culture, Identity (2006) (3)
The recursivity of the curatorial (2020) (3)
The Portfolio and Its Use. Book II: A Road Map for Assessment. (1996) (3)
Difficult Heritage: Unsettling History (2008) (3)
The Active Audience and the Politics of Appropriation (2020) (3)
Hidden costs, hidden labours : women in Nova Scotia during two world wars (1999) (3)
Education of Engineers in Britain (1978) (3)
The Museum as mirror : Ethnographic reflections (2003) (3)
Too many things to keep for the future? (2020) (3)
Introduction, creativity and the passage of time: History, tradition and the life-course (2007) (3)
Exhibiting contentious and difficult histories: Ethics, emotions and reflexivity (2016) (2)
On 'old things': (2002) (2)
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies: Theory (2015) (2)
Anthropological Perspectives on Social Memory (2006) (2)
A Review of “Museums in Motion. An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (2nd ed.)” (2008) (2)
Lifetimes:a multimedia history (1994) (2)
Malabsorption in children. (2001) (2)
Editorial: Science on display (1995) (2)
Exhibition experiments: publics, politics and scientific controversy (2010) (2)
Beyond the Glass Case: Museums as Playgrounds for Replication (2015) (1)
The Bell Club: One Hundred Years of Women's Cultural and Literary Life In Baddeck, Nova Scotia (1995) (1)
9. The Socialisation of the Natural and the Naturalisation of the Social (1993) (1)
Transforming the Ethnographic: (2020) (1)
Globalization, Profession, Practice (2006) (1)
Curating domestic profusion (2020) (1)
Curating museum profusion (2020) (1)
Using Rebuses with Young Children. (1994) (1)
Experiments in exhibition, ethnography, art and science: an introduction (2007) (1)
Book Review:Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 Steven Conn (2000) (1)
Hybrids of Modernity: Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition. (1998) (1)
Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage (2018) (1)
Whisky, Women and the Scottish Drink Problem. A View from the Highlands 1 (2020) (1)
Embedded Ethics and Research Integrity: A Response to ‘The Quest for Generic Ethics Principles in Social Science Research’ by David Carpenter (2017) (1)
NEGOTIATING ON THE GROUND(S): Guiding tours of Nazi heritage (2010) (1)
Editorial for 50th Anniversary of The Sociological Review New Series (2002) (1)
'Our Language, Our Heritage': Imagining Gaelic Culture (2020) (0)
Introduction (1995) (0)
Identity Complexes in Western Europe: Social Anthropological Perspectives (2020) (0)
‘The Last Bastion’: The Highland Churches (2020) (0)
Titi Ikoli in the academy (2007) (0)
Re: Worlding the Museum (2020) (0)
Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts (2006) (0)
Book Review: Heritage on stage: the invention of ethnic place in America’s Little Switzerland (2001) (0)
Reframing Islam? (0)
Introduction (2005) (0)
‘Reality Sets In’: Managing and Materialising Dreams (and Negotiating Nightmares) (2020) (0)
Commemorating the holocaust: the ethics of national identity in the 21st Century: the ethics of national identity in the 21st Century (2005) (0)
EPILOGUE TO THE NEW EDITION. (2020) (0)
New constellations of difference in Europe's museumscape (2016) (0)
SVANTE LINDQVIST (ed.) with MARIKA HEDIN and ULF LARSSON (associate eds.), Museums of Modern Science. Nobel Symposium, 112. Canton: Science History Publications, 2000. Pp. xii + 200. ISBN 0–88135–299–3. $39.95. (2001) (0)
Heritage Complex: Anthropological Perspectives (2009) (0)
History as a social issue (2010) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
Changing cultures, changing rooms: Fashioning identities and anthropological research (2007) (0)
Museums under the microscope (1989) (0)
ACCOMPANIED WITNESSING: Education, art and alibis (2010) (0)
Theorizing Museums - Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World@@@The Department Store: A Social History (1997) (0)
Introduction: Community, Continuity and Change in Britain (2005) (0)
Past presencing in Europe (2012) (0)
Culture Wars, Transformations, Futures (2006) (0)
Globalisation, cosmopolitan culture and 'dirty heritage' (2010) (0)
Anthropology at Home in Britain: from the margins to the centre. (2007) (0)
Cultural Revolution in South Kensington (2020) (0)
Architecture, Space, Media (2006) (0)
A New Vision for the 21st Century: Rewriting the Museum (2020) (0)
The International Handbook of Museum Studies: Media (2015) (0)
Sharon Macdonald : Accessing audiences : visiting visitor books (2006) (0)
PRESERVATION, PROFANATION AND IMAGE-MANAGEMENT (2010) (0)
Opening and Aftermath: Ritual, Reviews and Reflection (2020) (0)
Cost-efficient management of nutritional products. (1989) (0)
Reflections on Reimaging (2020) (0)
UNSETTLING DIFFICULT HERITAGE (2010) (0)
Geismar, Heidy. Treasured possessions: indigenous interventions into cultural and intellectual property. xvi, 297 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2013. £16.99 (paper) (2016) (0)
Special section: engaging anthropological legacies. Introduction : Engaging anthropological legacies towards cosmo-optimistic futures? (2017) (0)
Varutti, Marzia. Museums in China: the politics of representation after Mao. xi, 190 pp., illus., bibliogr. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. £60.00 (cloth) (2015) (0)
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies: Transformations (2015) (0)
Behind and Beyond the Scenes (2020) (0)
'From Strength to Strength': Community Revival (2020) (0)
Visions of Anthropology: What's the Goddamn Point of it all? (1998) (0)
Virtual Consumers and Supermarket Science (2020) (0)
'Being Part of the Place': On Belonging (2020) (0)
‘A Hot Potato’ for a New Public: a ‘Flagship’ Exhibition on Food (2020) (0)
Anthropology at Home in Britain (2007) (0)
Grant Museum of Zoology (2011) (0)
Stormy waters. Interpreting slavery (2007) (0)
Transcultural heritage: reconfiguring identities and the public sphere (2013) (0)
The Civil War Era (review) (2005) (0)
‘A Quest for Culture’: On Anthropology, Authenticity and Ambivalence (2020) (0)
COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN THE CITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS (2010) (0)
'The Crofting Community': Land, Religion and the Formation of the Highland People (2020) (0)
Reimagining Culture (2020) (0)
'Saving the Gaelic': Language Revival and Identity (2020) (0)
Histories, Heritage, Identities (2006) (0)
Reframing Islam in the “Refugee Crisis”? (2019) (0)
Review: Revitalising Gaelic (2007) (0)
‘A Way of Life’: Crofting, Tradition and People (2020) (0)
Admission: Going In (2020) (0)
Islam and Heritage in Europe (2021) (0)
Heritage, Islam, Europe (2021) (0)
Reviews (2001) (0)

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