Jonathan M. Marks

Jonathan M. Marks
Born 1955 (age 60–61)
Nationality American
Occupation Anthropologist
Organization University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (Nixon, Nevada)

Jonathan M. Marks (born 1955) is an American biological anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Early life and education

Born in 1955, Marks studied at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and took graduate degrees in genetics and anthropology from the University of Arizona, completing his doctorate in 1984.

Career

Marks' did post-doctoral research in the genetics department at UC-Davis from 1984-1987, then taught at Yale for 10 years and Berkeley for 3, before settling in Charlotte where he is now a professor at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Marks published works include many scholarly articles and essays. He is an outspoken critic of scientific racism, and has prominently argued against the idea that "race" is a natural category. In Marks's view, "race" is a negotiation between patterns of biological variation and patterns of perceived difference.

Marks is also on the Board of Directors of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism, Nixon, Nevada.

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