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Place of Birth: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
About Claudio Lomnitz
- Claudio Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.
- Prior to teaching at Columbia, Lomnitz was a Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School University.
- He served at different points in time as co-director of the University of Chicago's Mexican Studies Program (with Friedrich 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 University of Chicago, where he was Professor of History, New York University, El Colegio de M茅xico, and Universidad Aut贸noma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, in Mexico City.
- At the New School University, Lomnitz was appointed editor of the academic journal Public Culture, which moved with him to Columbia University in 2006.
- He continued to serve as editor until 2011. Born in Chile, Lomnitz received his undergraduate degree from Universidad Aut贸noma Metropolitana Iztapalapa.
- In 1982, Fondo de Cultura Econ贸mica published his first book, a study of politics and cultural change in Tepoztl谩n entitled Evoluci贸n de una sociedad rural.
- His interest in Latin America developed further as he pursued a Ph.D in Anthropology from Stanford University, receiving it in 1987.
- His next book, Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space, published by University of California Press in 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: Modernidad Indiana: 9 ensayos sobre naci贸n y mediaci贸n en M茅xico published by Planeta in 1999; Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism published by University of Minnesota Press in 2001 and described by Lomnitz as an expansion of ideas explored in Exits from the Labyrinth; Death and the Idea of Mexico, published by Zone Books in 2005; "El Antisemitismo y la ideolog铆a de la Revoluci贸n Mexicana" (Fondo de Cultura Econ贸mica, 2010); and, with Friedrich Katz, "El porfiriato y la revoluci贸n en la historia de M茅xico: Una conversaci贸n" (Ediciones ERA, 2012).
- "The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Mag贸n" (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.
- His most recent book is "Nuestra Am茅rica: utop铆a y persistencia de una familia jud铆a" (Fondo de Cultura Econ贸mica, 2018). Some of Lomnitz's essays have been published in short book format as well: "El antisemitismo y la ideolog铆a de la revoluci贸n Mexicana" (Fondo de Cultura Econ贸mica, 2010), "El primer linchamiento de M茅xico (El Colegio de M茅xico, 2015), and "La naci贸n desdibujada: M茅xico en trece ensayos" (Editorial Malpaso, 2016).
- He also edited a volume commemorating the 50th anniversary of Mexico's 1968 movement: "1968-2018: Cincuenta a帽os de historia colectiva" (UNAM, 2018). Lomnitz is a regular collaborator at La Jornada, a daily newspaper published in Mexico City, and has a monthly column in Nexos; for some years he also wrote a weekly column in Exc茅lsior, a daily newspaper published in Mexico City. In 2010 he was awarded Mexico's National Drama Award for a historical play titled "El verdadero Bulnes," co-authored with his brother, Alberto Lomnitz.
- Claudio and Alberto Lomnitz co-authored a second play, a political musical, together with composer Leonardo Soqui, titled "La Gran Familia", that was launched at the 2018 edition of the Festival Internacional Cervantino, with Mexico's Compa帽铆a Nacional de Teatro.
- Claudio Lomnitz was fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2011-12, and a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award in 2016.
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