{"id":2057,"date":"2017-08-08T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2018-01-11T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T11:22:00","slug":"claudio-lomnitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/claudio-lomnitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudio Lomnitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Claudio Lomnitz\u00a0is the Campbell Family Professor of\u00a0Anthropology\u00a0at\u00a0Columbia University. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Lomnitz was a Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Committee on Historical Studies at the\u00a0New School University. He served at different points in time as co-director of the University of Chicago’s Mexican Studies Program (with\u00a0Friedrich Katz), Director of the University of Chicago’s Latin American Studies Program, and Director of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. He has also taught at\u00a0University of Chicago, where he was Professor of History,\u00a0New York University,\u00a0El Colegio de M\u00e9xico, and\u00a0Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, in Mexico City. At the\u00a0New School University, Lomnitz was appointed editor of the\u00a0academic journal\u00a0Public Culture, which moved with him to Columbia University in 2006. He continued to serve as editor until 2011.<\/p>\n

Born in\u00a0Chile, Lomnitz received his undergraduate degree from\u00a0Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Metropolitana Iztapalapa. In 1982,\u00a0Fondo de Cultura Econ\u00f3mica\u00a0published his first book, a study of politics and cultural change in\u00a0Tepoztl\u00e1n\u00a0entitled\u00a0Evoluci\u00f3n de una sociedad rural<\/i>. His interest in\u00a0Latin America\u00a0developed further as he pursued a Ph.D in Anthropology from\u00a0Stanford University, receiving it in 1987. His next book,\u00a0Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space<\/i>, published by\u00a0University of California Press\u00a0in 1992, was an important intervention in the study of nationalist ideology and its relationship to the involved community. He has since written five other books on Mexico,\u00a0Modernidad Indiana: 9 ensayos sobre naci\u00f3n y mediaci\u00f3n en M\u00e9xico<\/i>\u00a0published by Planeta in 1999,\u00a0Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism<\/i>\u00a0published by\u00a0University of Minnesota Press\u00a0in 2001 and described by Lomnitz as an expansion of ideas explored in\u00a0Exits from the Labyrinth<\/i>,\u00a0Death and the Idea of Mexico<\/i>, published by Zone Books in 2005, “El Antisemitismo y la ideolog\u00eda de la Revoluci\u00f3n Mexicana” (Fondo de Cultura Econ\u00f3mica, 2010), and, with Friedrich Katz, “El porfiriato y la revoluci\u00f3n en la historia de M\u00e9xico: Una conversaci\u00f3n” (Ediciones ERA, 2012). His most recent book, “The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Mag\u00f3n” (Zone Books, 2014) won the Latin American Studies Association book prize for the best book in the humanities on Mexico, a Spanish translation by Jorge Aguilar Mora appeared with Editorial Era in 2016.<\/p>\n

Some of Lomnitz’s essays have been published in short book format as well: “El antisemitismo y la ideolog\u00eda de la revoluci\u00f3n Mexicana” (Fondo de Cultura Econ\u00f3mica, 2010), “El primer linchamiento de M\u00e9xico (El Colegio de M\u00e9xico, 2015), and “La naci\u00f3n desdibujada: M\u00e9xico en trece ensayos” (Editorial Malpaso, 2016).<\/p>\n

Lomnitz is a regular collaborator at\u00a0La Jornada\u00a0a daily newspaper published in Mexico City and has a monthly column in\u00a0Nexos<\/i>; he also wrote a weekly column in\u00a0Exc\u00e9lsior, a daily newspaper published in Mexico City for some years. In 2010 he was awarded Mexico’s National Drama Award for a historical play titled “El verdadero Bulnes,” co-authored with Alberto Lomnitz. Claudio Lomnitz was fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2011-12, and a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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