Prof. Dr. Sharon Macdonald

Sharon Macdonald is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of European Ethnology and Director of the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH).

Trained at the University of Oxford, she has held Chairs at the Universities of Sheffield, Manchester and York, and been a visiting Professor at Peking University among others. She came to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as Alexander von Humboldt Professor in 2015.

Sharon is internationally known for her research on museums and heritage, with her work having been translated into many languages.