Prof Peter Wade

Biography

• PhD in Social Anthropology (Cambridge University, 1981-1985), exploring ethnic relations and ideas about race in Colombia.
• Research Fellowship (Queens' College, Cambridge, 1985- 1988), focusing on black migrants from the Pacific coastal region of Colombia to the city of Medellín, Colombia.
• Lecturer in the University of Liverpool, jointly in the Department of Geography and the Institute of Latin American Studies, 1988-1995.
• Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, 1995-2002.
• Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, 2002-.

At Manchester, I am also linked to The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

For more details about my work, see:

• http://manchester.academia.edu/PeterWade.
• a press release about my research on racism in Latin America and its wider implications

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

Journal Editorships

• 2004- : Co-editor of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 

• 1997-2000: Senior Editor of Bulletin of Latin American Research
• 1993-1997: Co-editor of Bulletin of Latin American Research

Editorial board membership

• 2015-: editorial board, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
• 2015-: scientific committee member, Sociedad y Economía (Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Universidad del Valle, Colombia)
• 2015-: corresponding member of editorial board, Journal de la Société des Américanistes
• 2014- : member of advisory board, Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares
• 2013-18: editorial board of Latin American Research Review
• 2013-: editorial board of Journal of Latin American Studies
• 2013-: editorial board of Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
• 2013-: founding editorial board member of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• 2012-: editorial review board of Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies
• 2011-: International Editorial Council of Vibrant - Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (electronic journal of the Brazilian Anthropological Association)
• 2007-: editorial board of Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
• 2006-: editorial board of Critical World, a virtual research laboratory that explores the relationship between globalization and music (http://www.criticalworld.net/)
• 2006-: editorial board of Avá Revista de Antropología (journal of Postgraduate Programme in Social Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Argentina)
• 2003-: editorial board of Tabula Rasa (journal of Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Bogotá)
• 2000-: editorial board of ‘New World Diasporas’ book series, University Press of Florida
• 1999-: editorial board of Revista Colombiana de Antropología 
• 1998-: editorial board of Estudos Afro-Asiáticos