Mark Dries, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Mark P. Dries is a historian of Latin America whose research explores the social and cultural conflicts arising from colonial encounters and mercury mining in the Huancavelica, Peru drawing on the methods of urban history, Native American studies, and Ethnohistory. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of California, Davis where his research received support from the Davis Humanities Institute, the Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, and the Bilinski Educational Foundation. He is an assistant professor of History and Graduate Program Coordinator. He also leads a biannual summer study abroad to Cusco, Peru.

Area of Expertise

Latin American History, with a specialization in Native American Studies and Andean History. His works draws on the methods of ethnohistory and the history of Extractivism in colonial Latin America.