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