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Prof. Peter Mayo has just been awarded the highest Grade A+ Sobresaliente , which translates to English as Outstanding, in his defence of his second PhD at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
This PhD was in the programme of Estudios Artisticos, Leterarios y Cultura in the Facultad de lettres y filosofia at UAM. It was written and defended in English on Tuesday 19 December 2023.
The thesis was on power, politics and culture - representation, resistance and cultural renewal. It spans politics, sociology, literature, cultural studies and history of art ( including the problematic dichotomy of ' Fine Arts' and 'Popular' art and the international Cultural Politics of Western museums). It was supervised by Prof. Juan Carlos GĂłmez Alonso and Prof. Eugenio Enrique CortĂ©s RamĂrez. Prof. Mayo is currently working on additional chapters to turn this into what would be his 26th book.
His first PhD in Sociology in Education was received in 1994 after he had successfully defended his thesis on December 10, 1993 at the University of Toronto Graduate School, having spent two academic years in full time study at the then Department of Sociology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. The topic was Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education. Possibilities for Transformative Action. It was supervised by Prof. D.W. Livingstone.
He subsequently published the thesis as a book, minus the empirical case study ( published separately and in a different book by him), in eight languages: English (Zed Books), Catalan (Crec, Xativa), Portuguese (ArteMedicas, Porto Alegre, Brazil), German (Argument, Hamburg), Italian (Carlo Delfino, Sassari, Sardinia), Spanish (Crec, Xativa), Turkish (Utopya, Ankara) and Japanese (TaroJiro Sha Editus, Tokyo). The English version went into reprint and was reviewed in around 35 outlets.