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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | African, American and Oceania Studies,Other Areas of History |
| Keywords | National Societies, Cultural History, Political Anthropology, Latin America |
| Honours and awards | 2021: Elected member of Mexico's Colegio Nacional 2021: Kirkus Review selected my book Nuestra América in its top 10 for non-fiction in 2021 2019: García Cubas and CANIERM book prizes for book: 1968-2018: historia colectiva de medio siglo 2016: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Prize 2015: Latin American Studies Association prize for best book in the humanities (Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón) |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | New York |
| Institution | Columbia University |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze | Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2017 |
Programme(s)
| 2016 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Lomnitz is well known internationally for his research on history, politics and culture of Latin America, particularly of Mexico. His work has been recognized widely for its conceptual innovation, especially around the social study of nationalism, borders, boundaries and methods in historical anthropology. During his stay in Germany, he focuses on the political-cultural study of violence and the constitutional crisis in Mexico. |