Peter A. Mark Professor emeritus of Art History, Wesleyan University Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: April 2024, Mai/June 2025 Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Religion as a promoter of peace: the case of Casamance (Sénégal)«? Research partner: Peter Mark is a fellow at the Forschungskolleg at the invitation of Roland Hardenberg, Director of the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropological at Goethe University. In 2024, he worked on »The earliest West African responses to the Atlantic slave trade«; the stay was funded by the Frobenius Institute. In 2025, he is collaborating with researchers from Goethe University's interdisciplinary field of potential »Religion and De:Toxification (RelTox)«. Scholarly profile of Peter A. MarkPeter Mark is Professor emeritus of Art History at Wesleyan University. He has worked regularly at the Frobenius Institute since 1984, both as Alexander-von-Humboldt-Fellow, and as Visiting Faculty Member. From 2015 to 2019 he was Invited Cathedratic Professor of History, at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris, 2019) and at the Max-Planck-Institut (Halle, 2018). In 2012-2013 he was Senior Fellow at the research center »Re:work, Arbeit und Lebenslauf in globalhistorischer Perspektive« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.Website: Please find more information about Peter Mark here. Main areas of research: Cultural history of West Africa: pre-colonial history, art history, and 16th through 19th century European-African interaction, forms of captivity and unfree labor before the expansion of the Atlantic slave tradeSelected publications:
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