- Claudio Lomnitz
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Claudio Lomnitz is the William H. Ransford 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, one of three professors in the recently formed department. He has also taught at University of Chicago, where he was Professor of History, New York University, El Colegio de México, and Universidad Autónoma 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 continues to serve as its editor today.
Born in Chile, Lomnitz received his undergraduate degree from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa. In 1982, Fondo de Cultura Económica published his first book, a study of politics and cultural change in Tepoztlán entitled Evolución 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 three other books on Mexico, Modernidad Indiana: 9 ensayos sobre nación y mediación en México 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, and Death and the Idea of Mexico, published by Zone Books in 2005.
Lomnitz also wrote a weekly column in Excélsior, a daily newspaper published in Mexico City for some years, and serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
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