Background
Abercrombie, Thomas A. was born on January 22, 1951 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Son of Norman Thomas Abercrombie and Margaret Elizabeth Steere.
Abercrombie, Thomas A. was born on January 22, 1951 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Son of Norman Thomas Abercrombie and Margaret Elizabeth Steere.
Bachelor of General Studies, University Michigan, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1986.
Assistant professor history University Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1990-1995. Associate professor anthropology New York University, since 1995. Author: Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People, 1998 (Best book in Ethnohistory American Society Ethnohistory 1999).
Member American Anthropological Association, American History Association, American Society Ethnohistory, Society Spanish and Portuguese History Studies, Society Latin American Anthropology.
Life partner, Sarah Elizabeth Penry.