Dr. Ian William Merkel | Associated Researcher

Former Member
Mobilities, Migrations, Reconfiguration of Spaces
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, D-10117 Berlin
Email: ian.merkel  ( at )  cmb.hu-berlin.de Tel: +49(0) 30 / 20 93 70700
Website: https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/IanMerkel

Home Institution : Freie Universität Berlin | Position : Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Department of History | Disciplines : History , Anthropology , Cultural anthropology , Modern History , History of Science , Sociology , Cultural History |

Biography

Ian Merkel received his Ph.D. in cotutelle between New York University and the University of São Paulo and has taught at Cornell University, the University of Miami, the University of Turin, and Leipzig University. He is currently based at the Freie Universität Berlin's program for Global History. His work in intellectual history examines exchange across Latin America and European empires with an emphasis on the emergence of the social sciences. His first book, Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2022.

Publications

Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, May 2022. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo151028825.html

“Brazilian Race Relations, French Social Scientists, and African Decolonization: A Transatlantic History of the Idea of Miscegenation,” Modern Intellectual History 17, no. 3 (2020): 801-832.

“Fernand Braudel and the Empire of French Social Science: Newly Translated Sources from the 1930s,” French Historical Studies 40, no. 1 (February 2017): 129-160.