Claudio Lomnitz 1 Claudio Lomnitz Curriculum Vitae

Current Employment:

Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology Director, Center for Mexican Studies Columbia University

Address:

Department of Anthropology Columbia University 452 Schermerhorn Extension 1200 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027

EDUCATION:

Licenciado: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, 1978. MA: Anthropology, Stanford University, 1979 Ph.D.: Anthropology, Stanford University, 1987. Additional Graduate Work: Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 1981-1982.

BOOKS:

1982 Evolución de una sociedad rural. México: Sepochentas #27 (SEP/Fondo de Cultura Económica).

1992 Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space. Berkeley: University of California Press. {Spanish translation, Las salidas del laberinto: Antropología de la sociedad nacional. Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, 1995; reprinted 1999}

1999 Modernidad indiana: 9 ensayos sobre nación y mediación en México. Mexico: Planeta.

2001 Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

2005 Death and of the Idea of Mexico. New York: Zone Books Spanish translation, Idea de la muerte en México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006, winner of the 2007 Antonio García Cubas award for the best scientific contribution in Anthropology and History, and the annual Feria del Libro de Antropología e Historia, a book fair that brings together over 150 publishers from throughout Latin America; Winner of the CANIERM prize 2007 for finest sociological essay (currently on its third edition).

2010 El antisemitismo y la ideología de la revolución mexicana. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica (Cenzontle series).

2011 (with Friedrich Katz) El Porfiriato y la Revolución en la historia de México: Una Conversación, Mexico City: Editorial Era. [CD version of this interview with Friedrich Katz was released by the Instituto Mexicano de

Page 1. Claudio Lomnitz 2 la Radio and the University of Chicago, 2010 and was aired as a ten -part program produced by Mexican Public Radio]. (Pocketbook edition, 2017).

2014 The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón. New York: Zone Books, winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Mexico Humanities Book Award. [Spanish translation by Jorge Aguilar Mora, Ediciones ERA 2016]

2015 El primer linchamiento de México. Mexico City: El Colegio de México. [Translation of study published in Critical Historical Studies, 2014)

2016 La nación desdibujada: México en trece ensayos, Mexico City: Editorial Malpaso [is a selection of essays published between 2000-2015, edited by Rafael Lemus; 2nd Edition, 2016).

2018 Nuestra América: utopía y persistencia de una familia judía. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

2018 La gran familia (with Alberto Lomnitz and Leonardo Soqui). Libretto of the musical. Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Compañía Nacional de Teatro, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

(submitted for review) Un antropólogo en la prensa. México City: Cal y Arena.

EDITED VOLUMES:

2000 Vicios públicos, virtudes privadas: la corrupción en México. Mexico: CIESAS/Miguel Angel Porrúa.

2008 The Public Life of History, special issue of the journal Public Culture, edited with Bain Attwood and Dipesh Chakrabarty.

2018 1968-2018: Historia colectiva de medio siglo. Mexico City: UNAM.

DRAMATURGY

2009 Co-authored with Alberto Lomnitz, El verdadero Bulnes. Published in Casa Del Tiempo Vol 3 (25): 47-67. Winner of the 2009 Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia (Mexico’s National Dramaturgy Prize). Set to stage in Mexico City’s Teatro de la Paz, and Guadalajara’s Teatro de la Universidad de Guadalajara. Director: José Caballero. Reprinted in Antología del Teatro de la Revolución, edited by Hugo Fragozo. Mexico City: Editorial Pax (in press). Set to radio drama by Mexican public radio (Radio IMER), 2011.

2014 and 2015 Member of the international jury of Valladolid (Spain), Festival de Teatro y Artes de la Calle.

2018 La Gran Familia, el musical, co-authored with Alberto Lomnitz, music by Leonardo Soqui. Will open at Festival Internacional Cervantino 2018, regular season at Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, UNAM. Production by Mexico's Compañía Nacional de Teatro.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES:

1979 Clase y etnicidad en Morelos, una nueva interpretación. América Indígena 39(3): 439-475.

1984 Compliance and coalitions in the Mexican government: 1917-1940 In Five Centuries of Law and Politics in Central Mexico, edited by Ronald Spoors and Ross Hassig, Nashville: Vanderbilt Publications in Anthropology, pps. 173-209.

Page 2. Claudio Lomnitz 3 1984 La antropología de campo en Morelos, 1930-1983. In Cinco siglos de historia regional de Morelos, edited by Horacio Crespo. Pps.395-419. México: CEHAM.

1986 Poder y coaliciones en el gobierno de México, 1917-1940: Un enfoque cíclico. Encuentro (Revista del Colegio de Jalisco) 3(1): 49-119.

1986 What's in a Perspective? The History of Mexicanist Anthropology. Reviews in Anthropology 13(4):348- 354.

1986 El problema de escala en la Antropología Cultural. In La heterodoxia recuperada: En torno a Angel Palerm, edited by Susana Glantz. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica (p.597-616).

1987 Tradición y planeación, la cultura de la comida en México. In La alimentación del futuro de México (v.2), edited by Raúl Carvajal. México: UNAM.

1988 La Antropología Social de Campo en Morelos. In La Antropología en México, Panorama Histórico, v.14, edited by Carlos García Mora. Mexico: INAH.

1988 La Antropología Social en San Luis Potosí.In La Antropología en México, Panorama Histórico, v.15, edited by Carlos García Mora. Mexico: INAH.

1990 El fondo de la forma: Actos públicos de la campaña presidencial del PRI, 1988. Nueva Antropología:38: 45-83.(With Larissa Lomnitz and Ilya Adler). English translations: “Functions of the Form: Political Ritual in the Partido Revolucionario Institucional's 1988 Presidential Campaign.” In Constructing Culture and Power in Latin America, edited by Daniel Levine. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. [Reprinted in Elecciones y sistemas de partidos políticos en América Latina, edited by Dieter Nohlen. San José (Costa Rica): Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos 1992].

1991 Concepts for the Study of Regional Culture. American Ethnologist 18 (2): 195-214. [Reprinted in Mexican Regions, edited by Eric Van Young. San Diego: Center for US/Mexico Studies/University of California Press].

1992 Usage politique de l’ambiguité: le cas mexicain. L’Homme xxxii(1): 91-102.

1993 Antropología de la nacionalidad mexicana. In Antropología breve de México, edited by Lourdes Arizpe. Mexico: Academia Mexicana de Ciencias.

1993 Hacia una antropología histórica de la nacionalidad mexicana. Revista Mexicana de Sociología 55(2): 169-196.

1994 Decadence in Times of Globalization. Cultural Anthropology 9(2):1-11.[Spanish version in De lo global a lo local, edited by Nestor García Canclini. Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 1995]

1994 Estado y etnicidad: Rito y negociación en la campaña presidencial de 1988. Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv 20(1-2):53-82, (with Larissa Lomnitz).

1995 Ritual, Rumor and Corruption in the Constitution of Polity in Mexico. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 1(1): 20-47.

1996 Power. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. New York: Holt.

1996 Ritual, rumor y corrupción en la formación del espacio nacional en México. Revista Mexicana de Sociología 59 (2):21-51.

Page 3. Claudio Lomnitz 4 1996 Ansätze zu einer Geographie des Schweigens... Provinzintellektuell e und die Soziologie des "eigentlichen Mexiko." In Integration-Transformation. Ethnische Gemeinsschaften, Staat un Welwirtschaft in Lateinamerika seit ca. 1850 edited by Stefan Karlen and Andreas Wimmer. Munich: Verlag Hanss-Dieter Heinz Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart.

1996 Fissures in Mexican Nationalism. Public Culture 9: 55-68.

1998 Census. Encyclopedia of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.

1998 Regions and Regionalism. Encyclopedia of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.

1998 An Intellectual’s Stock in the Factory of Mexican Ruins: Enrique Krauze’s “Biography of Power.” American Journal of Sociology 103(4): 1052-1065. (Spanish version and subsequent debate was published in Milenio, May 1998, has been reprinted elsewhere)

1999 Modes of Citizenship in Mexico. Public Culture 11(1): 269-293. [Reprinted in Dilip P.Gaonkar (Ed.), Alternative Modernities. Durham:Duke University Press 2001; and in Luis Roniger and Carlos Waisman (eds.) Multiple Modernities. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2002. Spanish version was published in the journal Metapolítica, summer of 2000].

1999 Barbarians at the Gate? A Few Remarks on the Politics of the “New Cultural History” of Mexico. Hispanic American Historical Review 79(2): 355-371.

1999 Les “centres” et la dialectique de la distinction a Tepoztlán. Le Mouvement Social 187: 33-62.

1999 Los trapos sucios del nacionalismo: Hacia una geografía de las ‘zonas de contacto’. In Reforma del estado y coordinación social, edited by Norbert Lechner, René Millán and Francisco Valdés. Mexico: UNAM/Plaza y Valdés, pp. 177-194.

2000 Passion and Banality in Mexican History: The Presidential Persona. In The Collective and the Public in Latin America, edited by Luis Roniger and Tamar Herzog. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, pp.238-256.

2000 Nationalism as a Practical System: A Critique of Benedict Anderson’s Theory of Nationalism from a Spanish American Perspective. In The Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America, edited by Miguel Angel Centeno and Fernando López-Alves. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp.329-359. [Portuguese translation of this article appeared in Novos Estudos, 2001].

2001 Bordering on Anthropology: The Dialectics of a National Tradition (Mexico). Revue de Synthèse 121 (3-4): 345-380. [Spanish version published in M.Plotkin (ed.), Los intelectuales y la globalización en América Latina. Madrid: MAPFRE; Reprinted in Empires, Nations and Natives: Anthropology and State-Making, edited by Benoit de L’Estoile, Federico Neiburg and Lygia Sigaud, Durham, Duke University Press, 2005, pps. 167-196.

2001 Elusive Property: The Personification of Mexican National Sovereignty. In The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture, edited by Fred Myers. Santa Fe: SAR Press, pp. 119-138.

2002 Identidad. In Términos críticos de la sociología de la cultura, edited by Carlos Altamirano. Buenos Aires: Paidós.

2003 Times of Crisis: Historicity, Sacrifice and the Spectacle of Debacle in Mexico City,” Public Cutlure 15(1) 127-147. [Spanish translation in Pensar en México, edited by Héctor Aguilar Camín and Enrique Florescano. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006, pps. 225-260.]

2003 The Depreciation of Life During Mexico City’s Transition into “the Crisis,” in Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World, edited by Jane Schneider and Ida Susser. London: Berg, pp.47-70.

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2004 Anthropology in Latin America. Encyclopedia Britannica .

2004 Americanization and Mortuary Ritual in Greater Mexico. In The North-Americanization of Latin America, edited by Stefan Rinke.

2004 Response to Clifford Geertz, “What is a State if not Sovereign?”, Current Anthropology 54(5): 577-593.

2004 L’interprétation du sentiment national: intellectuals et gouvernementalité au Mexique. In Penser avec Michel Foucault. Théorie critique et pratiques politiques, edited by Marie-Christine Granjon. Paris.

2005 (with Dominic Boyer) Intellectuals and Nationalism: Anthropological Engagements. Annual Review of Anthropology 34, pp. 105-120.

2005 Acerca de la reciprocidad negativa. Revista de Antropología Social (Madrid) 14: 311-339.

2006 Afterword. In Cultural Agency in the Americas, edited by Doris Sommer, Durham, Duke University Press, pp. 334-340.

2006 What Was Mexico’s Cultural Revolution? In The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940, edited by Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis, Durham, Duke University Press, pps. 335-350.

2008 Narrating the Neoliberal Moment: History, Journalism, Historicity. Public Culture 20(1).

2008 El odio a los científicos como problema de interpretación histórica. In Intelectuales e ideas en América Latina, edited by Carlos Altamirano and Jorge Myers. Buenos Aires: Katz Editores.

2009 Chronotopes of a Dystopic Nation: The Birth of “Dependency” in Late Porfirian Mexico. In Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries Between History and Anthropology, edited by Andrew Wilford and Eric Taggliatozzo, Stanford, Stanford University Press, pps. 102-138; Portuguese translation appeared in the journal Mana 15 (1),p. 91-125, 2009; reprinted in Globalizing American Studies, edited by Brian Edwards and Dilip Gaonkar, University of Chicago Press, 2010; Spanish translation in Cuicuilco 17 (48), 2010, pps. 193- 228].

2009 Once tesis acerca de Molina Enríquez,” In En busca de Molina Enríquez: Cien Años de ‘Los grandes problemas nacionales,’ edited by Emilio Kourí, Mexico City: El Colegio de México, pps. 65-78.

2010 Por mi raza hablará el nacionalismo revolucionario: Breve arqueología de la Unidad Nacional. Nexos, February Issue. [Reprinted in Revolución y exilio en la Historia de México: Homenaje a Friedrich Katz, edited by Emilio Kourí and Javier Garciadiego, Mexico City, Ediciones Era 2010, and in El Mestizaje Mexicano, edited by Enrique Krauze, Mexico City, Ediciones Espejo de Obsidiana, 2010]

2010 Anti-Semitism and the Ideology of the Mexican Revolution. Representations 110: 1-28. [Spanish version being published as an independent volume by Fondo de Cultura Económica, in its Cenzontle series]

2011 Los orígenes de nuestra supuesta homogeneidad: breve arqueología de la unidad nacional en México. Prismas 14: pps. 17-36. [article was reprinted in Debates en la antropología contemporánea, edited by Alejandro Grimson, Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI; and in an abbreviated English translation in Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present, edited by Laura Gotkowitz, Durham, Duke Univesrity Press, 2011]

2011 Prologue to the 50th anniversary commemorative edition of Oscar Lewis, Los hijos de Sánchez, and Death in the Sánchez Family, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Page 5. Claudio Lomnitz 6 2012 Time and Dependency in Latin America Today. South Atlantic Quarterly , special issue on global crisis, edited by Michael Hardt and Moishe Postone, 111 (2): 348 -357.

2014 “Mexico’s first Lynching: Crime, Moral Panic, Dependency”, Critical Historical Studies 1(1) : 85-123. [Spanish translation appeared as El primer linchamiento de México, El Colegio de México, Jornadas].

2015 Secularism and the Mexican Revolution, in Beyond the Secular West, edited by Akeel Bilgrami. New York: Columbia University Press.

2016 About Life and Death in Mexico, conversation with Marit Melhuus and Benedicte Bull, in Anthropology in Our Times, edited by Sindre Bangstad. London: Palgrave.

2016 Benedict Anderson (1936-2015). Hispanic American Historical Review 96(4): 711-714.

2016 La religión de los Caballeros Templarios. Nexos pps. 28-37 (August issue).

2017 Nueve tesis acerca de la relevancia del nazismo de Reichel para la antropología Colombiana. Antípoda 27 (enero-abril): 177-181.

2017 Cultural Nationalism in Carlos Chávez's Generation. IMex. México Interdisciplinario. Interdisciplinary Mexico 6(11): 14-19.

2017 Afterword: Interpreting La Santa Muerte. In Living Insecurity, Looking at Death. La Santa Muerte in 21st Century Mexico, edited by Wil G. Pansters. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Reprinted in Spanish translation in special issue of Revista M. Estudos sobre a morte, os mortos e o morrer, edited by Gabriel Kessler.

2017 "Governing Coalitions and the Plunder of the Amazon", commentary in Hau Forum: Indigenous Peoples Boxed in by Brazil's Political Crisis", by Manuela Carneiro da Cunha. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(2): 403-426.

2017 "Prólogo", La frontera nómada, by Héctor Aguilar Camín (40th year commemorative edition). Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

2018 "La frontera como relación social criminal o criminalizada". In Si persisten las molestias (Noticias de algunos casos de ceguera ilustrada), edited by Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo. Mexico City: Editorial Cal y Arena.

2018 "Santa muerte: estigma e intercambio." Revista M. 3(5): 103-113. [Spanish version is in press as La Santa Muerte: estigma e intercambio. In La muerte en la historia de México, edited by Javier Garciadiego. Mexico City: El Colegio Nacional.]

2018 "Afterword: Interpreting La Santa Muerte," In Living Insecurity, Looking at Death. La Santa Muerte in 21st Century Mexico, edited by Wil Pansters. Albuquerque: New Mexico Press.

(2019-- expected) Ethos and Telos of Michoacán's Knights Templar. Representations (September issue).

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS:

1983 Review of La herencia obstinada, análisis de cuentos nahuas, by Julieta Campos (Fondo de Cultura Económica/1982). Vuelta 81: 37-38.

1984 Review of El espejo de Próspero, dialéctica del Nuevo Mundo, by Richard M. Morse (Siglo XXI/1982). Casa del Tiempo IV(40):39-41.

Page 6. Claudio Lomnitz 7 1984 El día de muertos en el México tradicional. Páginas 2:15-19.

1984 El día de muertos en el México tradicional. Sábado (UnomasUno), 17 de marzo.

1985 Review of Expansión de sistemas y relaciones de poder: Antropología política del estado de Morelos, by Roberto Varela (UAM/1984). Sábado (UnomasUno), 12 de enero.

1986 Introduction to the section titled "Nuevas incursiones heterodoxas." In La heterodoxia recuperada: En torno a Angel Palerm, edited by Susana Glantz. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica (p.559-562).

1987 Review of Poder local, poder regional, edited by Jorge Padua and Alain Vanneph (El Colegio de México, 1986). Estudios Sociológicos 14:397-400.

1988 Review of La jaula de la melancolía: Identidad y metamorfosis del mexicano, by Roger Bartra (Grijalbo, 1987). Libros de la Jornada, October 31.

1989 Review of From Insurrection to Revolution: Social Bases of Agrarian Revolt in Mexico, 1750-1940, by John Tutino (Princeton, 1986). Historia Mexicana xxxvii(3): 540-545.

1990 La tierra sobre la que ponemos los piés (interpretación y comunidad en la política mexicana). La Jornada Semanal, March 31. (With Larissa Lomnitz).

1992 Review of Endangered Cultures, by Miguel León-Portilla (Southern Methodist University, 1990). Journal of Anthropological Research 48(1):70-71.

1993 La decadencia en los tiempos de globalización. La Jornada Semanal 23 de mayo: 26-31.

1996 Nación y Estado en la encrucijada actual. Universidad de Mexico no. 546: 22-26.

1996 La insoportable levedad de la antropología mexicana. Fractal 2: 51-76. Reprinted as “Descubrimiento y desilusión en la antropología mexicana,” in Saberes periférico: Ensayos sobre la antropología en América Latina, edited by Carlos Iván Degregory and Pablo Sandoval, Lima, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2007, pp. 201-226, and in 2012 web version in http://www.scribd.com/doc/116019242/Saberes-perifericos-ensayos- sobre-la-antropologia-en-America-Latina-IEP-IFEA-2007.

1996 Review of Articulating Hidden Histories:Essays in Honor of Eric Wolf, edited by Jan Schreider and Rayna Rapp (University of Claifornia Press/1998). American Ethnologist 23(1): 147.

1996 Review of Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance, edited by William Beezley, William French and Cheryl Maria English (SAR/1994). American Ethnologist 23(3): 643.

1997 Review of Beyond Boundaries, edited by Gisli Palsson (London, Berg 1993). Man.

1997 Review of Wages of Conquest: The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press 1995). Ethnos.

1998 A caballo en el rio Bravo. Fractal 9: 121-132.

1999 Eric Wolf, In Memoriam. La Jornada, March 9.

1999 De la rabia al valor (on Dias de coraje, by Galo Gómez, Grijalbo, 1999). Milenio, July 12, pp. 58-60.

1999 La última entrevista con Galo Gómez. Proceso, December 19.

Page 7. Claudio Lomnitz 8 2000 Ironías de un evolucionista comprometido ( Review of Roger Bartra/ La sangre y la tinta: ensayos sobre la condición post-mexicana). Hoja por Hoja.

2000 La transición, esa metáfora calva (discussion on the Mexican political transition with Jorge Castañeda and Roger Bartra). Fractal 12: 151-167.

2002 “La independencia y la paz de los sepulcros,” Nexos (September issue).

2003 Review of Historia de las historias de la nación mexicana, by Enrique Florescano (Taurus, 2003), Nexos (June issue).

2003 Diatriba contra el trato que los mexicanos de México le dan a los mexicanos de los Estados Unidos, Revista Etcétera, October Issue, pp.34-36.

2004 Por amor a la patria. In ¿Quienes somos? Crítica a Samuel Huntington, edited by Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo, Mexico, Paidós. [reprinted in La Jornada (Sunday Magazine section Masiosare), October 17, 2004).

2005 American Soup: Are We All Anglo-Protestants? (review of Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? Simon and Schuster, 2004). Boston Review 30 (1), pp.38-39. [Reprinted in Claves de Razón Práctica, 159, Feb. 2006, pp. 77-80].

2005 Mexico’s Race Problem, and the Real Story Behind Fox’s Faux Pas. Boston Review 30 (6), pp. 18-20.

2006 Latin America’s Rebellion. Boston Review (September).

2007 Foundations of the Latin American Left. Public Culture (January, 2007).

2009 Interview on Carlos Fuentes. Books.

2009 United by Hate. Boston Review—co-authored with Rafael Sánchez, July-August issue. Spanish Translation was published in Nexos, August issue; French Translation in Vacarme, Winter 2010. Reprinted in Powers: Religion as a Social and Spirutal Force, edited by Meerten B. ter Borg and Jan Willen van Henten, New York, Fordham University Press, 2010, pp. 167-180. [Reprinted as a Boston Review “Singles” monograph, in 2012]

2009 Levi-Strauss (1907-2009), el fin de una era. Nexos, November issue.

2010 Review of Los años estudiantiles (1965-1973): la formación de un antropólogo en México, by Andrés Fábregas Puig. Nexos March issue.

2011 ‘¡Exijo una explicación! (¡plop!)’. Response to Fernando Escalante, Nexos February issue.

2011 On the Unlikely Popularity of Friedrich Katz. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 27(1): 233-239.

2011 “Prólogo,” to Marshall Sahlins, La ilusión occidental de la naturaleza humana, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica (Colección Umbrales).

2011 (with Valentina Glockner) A Stand Against the Criminalization of Drugs. Anthropology Newsletter (http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2011/12/08/a-stand-against-the-criminalization-of-drugs)

2012 Revolución, historia internacional e historia social: en torno de la contribución de Friedrich Katz, Nexos September 2012.

2013 “Forward: Elementary Forms of Creative Life,” in The Logic of Disorder: The Art and Writings of Abraham Cruzvillegas, edited by Robin Greeley. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

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2014 “Prólogo” to Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haití y la historia universa l. Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica (Colección Umbrales)

2014 “El ensayista en su centenario.” [sobre Octavio Paz] Nexos January issue, 2014.

2014 “La revolución permanente.” For Pedro Reyes’ art calague, Fundación Jumex, Mexico City.

2014 “La etnografía y el futuro de la antropología en México,” Nexos November issue. http://www.nexos.com.mx/?p=23263

2015 “La trama del primer linchamiento de México,” Nexos January issue http://www.nexos.com.mx/?p=23484

2015 Ocho Preguntas Acerca de Porfirio Díaz y el Porfiriato. Nexos, July issue.

2015 Los exilios de Enrique Ramírez. Catalogue of Enrique Ramírez exhibition. Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.

2016 Dignidad ad nazium [new monthly column titled “Pasaporte, por favor”], Nexos (April).

2016 Big Macs y nuevos sindicalismos, Nexos, (May).

2016 Bangladesh, Nexos, (June).

2016 Venezuela, metafísica de la política, Nexos, (July).

2016 Mesohippus, Nexos, (August).

2016 El problema del martirio, hoy. Nexos, (September).

2016 Sobre la importancia del plagio. Nexos (October).

2016 Las Filipinas como advertencia. Nexos (November).

2016 'Sepa cuanto la musa antigua canta'. Nexos (December).

2017 La importancia del muro. Nexos (January)

2017 Preguntas acerca de los saqueos. Nexos (February)

2017 Escenarios para pensar la coyuntura. Nexos (March)

2017 ¿Abdicación de los Estados Unidos a la autoridad moral? Nexos (April)

2017 El tarot y la nación. Nexos (May)

2017 Cuidar el tiempo de la gente Nexos (June)

2017 Lo que Corbyn puede enseñarle a AMLO Nexos (July)

2017 Fredo. Nexos (August)

2017 El tuit, el bot y el eco del demagogo Nexos (September)

2017 Iñárritu y los migrantes Nexos ( Cultural Section: October)

Page 9. Claudio Lomnitz 10 2017 Trabajo formal, reproducción informal. Nexos (October)

2017 Por una diversidad en la contratación. Nexos (November)

2017 Transparencia versus confianza. Nexos (December)

2017 Sheila Hicks: la trama y el enredo", essay for exhibition catalogue, "Sheila Hicks", Museo Amparo, Puebla.

2018 Tomarse en serio la educación. Nexos (January)

2018 'Welcome to Shithole!' Nexos (February)

2018 Etica y estética del elefante blanco. Nexos (March)

2018 La idea de México, hoy. Nexos (April)

2018 Hay burro y se ofrece viaje. Nexos (May)

2018 El periódico como espacio pedagógico. Nexos (June)

2018 Kim Jong-Un en la frontera México-Estados Unidos. Nexos (July)

2018 ¿Gastar pólvora en infiernillos? Nexos (August)

2018 Resucitar las misiones de las ediciones universitarias. Nexos (September)

2018 Prólogo: Relato nacional ¿para qué? In México 2018: la responsabilidad del porvenir, Pedro Salazar Ugarte, Arturo Oropeza García y José Antonnio Romero Tellaeche Eds., 2 vols. Mexico City: UNAM, 2018, pps. 23-26.

OPINION AND MEDIA PARTICIPATION*:

March 27 2006-December 10 2007 I wrote a weekly column at Excelsior (Mexico City)—copies of the column available on demand or via the web at www.nuevoexcelsior.com.mx.

Occasional occasional TV appearances, particularly in Mexico City channels 11, 22, and 40; regular appearances in Mexican public radio (Radio IMER), including several miniseries that I have organized and directed; occasional (but less numerous) interviews and publications in US including in the Boston Review, Huffington Post, and NPR.

2012-to date: twice-monthly column at La Jornada (Mexico City), first contribution started January, 2012.

2016 (April)- to –date monthly column in the magazine Nexos.

EDITOR

2011-2018 Editor (with Fernando Escalante) Umbrales book series in the qualitative Social Sciences, with the aim of translating significant authors and texts into Spanish, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica. [authors published in the collection so far: Joel Migdal, Jean François Bayart, Alban Bensa, Lauren Berlant,

* Lists of articles published available upon request. Page 10. Claudio Lomnitz 11 Susanne Brandstädter, Susan Buck-Morss, Vena Das, Peter Geschiere, Béatrice Hibou, Susan McKinnon, As his Nandy, Marshall Sahlins, Michael Warner, James Siegel, Katherine Verdery ].

2004-2010 Editor of the journal Public Culture.

EMPLOYMENT:

2009- to date Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.

2006-2009 William H. Ransford Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.

2004-2006 Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies. The New School for Social Research.

1995-2004 Professor of History and Anthropology. The University of Chicago. (appointed by the History Department).

1988-1995 Associate Professor. Department of Anthropology, New York University (tenured in 1992).

1986-1988 Associate Professor. Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México.

1983-1985 Assitant Professor. Department of Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Iztapalapa, Mexico City).

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

2018-19 Freie Universität, Berlin (Institute for Latin American Studies)

2015-2018 (summers) Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE), Mexico City

2003-2004 CIESAS-Oaxaca (Mexico).

1998-1999 Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM (Mexico)

1992-1993 Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM (Mexico)

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

2018-19 Interim director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University.

2013-to date Founding Director, Center for Mexican Studies, Columbia University.

2014 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

2006-2009 Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University.

2004-06 Chair of the Committee on Historical Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School.

2004-2006 Director of the Janey Program for Latin American Studies at the New School.

2005 Founder and Chair of the History Concentration at Eugene Lang College (New School University).

Page 11. Claudio Lomnitz 12 1996-2002 Co-Director with professor Friedrich Katz of the Program for Mexican Studies, University of Chicago.

2001-2002 Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago.

1987-1988 Director of Graduate Studies (“coordinador académico”), Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México.

AWARDS:

García Cubas Book Award for Idea de la muerte en México (2006)

CANIEM Books Award for Idea de la muerte en México (2006)

Mexico's National Drama Award for El verdadero Bulnes (2010)

Fellow Wisenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2011)

Latin American Studies Association's Best Book in the Humanities award for The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón (2015)

Humboldt Research Award ("Humboldt Prize") (2016)

GRANTS:

1985 Instituto Mexicano de Psiquiatría research grant for the project: "Alcohol, etnicidad y religión en la Huasteca Potosina."

1988 Tinker Foundation research grant for project on the public events of the 1988 presidential campaign of Mexico's Partido Revolucionario Institucional.

1995-2001 Principal Investigator of a Mellon grant for graduate student support for the Latin American History program of the University of Chicago. Funding was renewed for a second five-year period in 2000 (grants were for $500,000 for each 5-year period)

1996-2002 Principal Investigator of a Hewlett grant for the University of Chicago’s Mexican Studies Program. Funding was renewed in 1998 and in 2000 (grants were for c. 200,000 for each two-year period).

2002 Title VI grant for the University of Chicago’s Center for Latin American Studies.

2005 Principal Investigator, Andrew Mellon grant for the development of history across the university at The New School ($500,000).

FELLOWSHIPS:

1. For graduate study. a. Stanford University (full tuition and full stipend), 1978-81; 1983-85. b. Conacyt (full stipend at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), 1981-82. c. Mellon Grant for summer research in Brazil.

Page 12. Claudio Lomnitz 13 2. Fellowships. a. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Mexico), 1986 -1988. b. C.B.Smith Research Grant, University of Texas, 1987. c. Mellon Presidential Fellowship for Junior Faculty, New York University, 1989. d. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant, 1992. e. CONACyT Cátedra Maestra year-long fellowship, held at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1992-93. f. Visiting Professor, Department de Sciences Sociales, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, 1992, 1994, 1997. g. 2000 Fellow at the Center for the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (declined). h. CONACyT Cátedra Maestra, year-long fellowship, held at CIESAS-Istmo, in Oaxaca City, 2002-2003. i. Invited to Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, 2005 (declined). j. Wissenschaftskolleg of Berlin, 2011-12. k. Profesor Visitante, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, 2015.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

1986-88 Estudios Sociológicos (Journal of Sociology and Anthropology of El Colegio de México).

1995-1998 American Ethnologist.

1995-to date Fractal (Mexico City).

1995-2003 Public Culture.

1995 Advisory board: Encyclopedia of Mexican History.

1996-99 Ethnohistory.

1997-2000 Ethnos.

1998-2003 Critique Internationale (Fondation Nationale de Sciences Politiques, Paris, France).

1999-to date Revista Mexicana de Sociología.

1999-to date Revista de Antropología Colombiana.

2001 Mana: Estudos de Antropologia Social (Brazil)

2010- to date Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos

2013- to date Huya Editorial (Brazil)

2013- to date Cultural Anthropology

2013- to date Antropologías del Sur (Chile)

2014-to date Critical Historical Studies (University of Chicago Press)

2014- to date Antropologia (University of Milano)

Page 13. Claudio Lomnitz 14 2016 Revista M: Estudos sobre a morte, os mortos e morrer (Rio de Janeiro)

2016 Revista Encartes Antropológicos

2018 Horizontes Antropologicos (Graduate Division, Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul).

CONFERENCES:

1. Invited Lectures

Bagazci University (Istambul) Biblioteca Burgoa, Oaxaca. Boston University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Cambridge University Cebrap, São Paulo, Brazil Center for the Study of Developing Societies (New Delhi) Center for US/Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego. CIDE (Mexico City) CIESAS Occidente (Guadalajara) CIESAS Oriente (Xalapa) CIESAS Istmo (Oaxaca) CIESAS Sureste (San Cristóbal de las Casas) Columbia University Copenhaguen University (Denmark) Cornell University Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France El Colegio de México El Colegio de Michoacán El Colegio Nacional (Mexico) El Colegio de San Luis Escuela Nacional de Antropología (Mexico) Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Frei Universitat (Berlin) Graduate Center/ City University of New York Graduate Institute/ University of Geneva Goldsmith's College/ University of London Harvard University Hemispheric Institute, NYU (Chiapas Summer School) Iberoamerikanisches Institut, Berlin Instituto de Estudios Peruanos Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (UNAM) Instituto J.M.L.Mora Johns Hopkins University Kellogg Institute, Notre Dame University Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janiero New School for Social Research New York Academy of Sciences New York University New York University (Buenos Aires campus) Northwestern University Osaka University Princeton University

Page 14. Claudio Lomnitz 15 Stanford University Unicamp, Brazil Universidad Autónoma de Tabasco Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (Cuernavaca) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa Universidad de las Américas UCLA Universidad de San Marcos (Lima, Peru) Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Universidad San Antonio Abad (Cuzco, Peru) Universidad Veracruzana Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro University of Aberdeen University of California at Irvine University of California at San Diego University of Californi, Berkeley University of California, Santa Cruz University of California-Davis University of Chicago University of Geneva University of Indiana University of London (Goldsmith's College) University of Michigan University of Oklahoma University of Paris (several campuses) University of Pennsylvania University of Vienna Wageningen University (Holland) Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin University of Leipzig University of Cologne Yale University

2. Prized Lectures and Keynote Addresses.

Social Science Dean’s Lecture, University of Chicago (1995) Asociacão Brasileira de Antropologia (keynote address) Irish Anthropological Association (keynote address; twice) Asociación Colombiana de Antropología (keynote address; twice) Asociación Argentina de Antropología (keynote address) University of Zurich, Switzerland (Ethnicity and the State in Latin America: keynote address) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapozalco (Fronteras de la cultura mexicana: Keynote address) University of California-Irvine (Cultural Agency in Reshaping the Americas): Keynote Address. Annette B. Weiner Lecture, Department of Anthropology, New York University. Chilean Anthropology Association; Keynote Address. SUNY Stony Brook (Latin American Studies; Keynote address) Arthur Aiton Memorial Lecture, Latin American History, University of Michigan. Reunión de Antropología de Mercusur (RAM); Keynote address. 10th Reunion, Taller de Historia Social, El Colegio de México (keynote address, 2012) 2nd National Congress of Mexican Anthropology (keynote address, 2012) National Congress of Mexican Sociology (keynote address, 2012) International Congress of Americanists (first plenary keynote address, 2012) Illustrating Anarchy and Revolution: Mexican Legacies of Global Change (keynote address, 2014)

Page 15. Claudio Lomnitz 16 International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (keynote address, 2014) Japanese Association for Cultural and Social Anthropology 50 th year anniversary (keynote address, 2014) Asociaçao Brasileira de Antropologia (keynote address 2014) CIDE (Mexico City) (commencement address, 2014) B.N.Ganguli Memorial Lecture, CSDS (New Delhi), 2015 “Lectures in Criticism”, Boston University, 2015 Keynote address, 40th anniversary FLACO-Mexico City, 2015 Consejo Mexicano de Ciencias Sociales (COMECSO), Guadalajara 2016 Pen Club Festival devoted to Mexico, New York City, 2016 Annual Juan Bruce Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, UC Irvine, 2016 Michel Rolph Trouillot Lecture, University of Chicago, 2016 Commencement address, Escuela Nacional de Antropología (Mexico), 2016 Friedrich Katz Chair Keynote Address, El Colegio de México, 2016 Guillermo de la Peña Chair Keynote Address, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2016 Keynote Address, Material Culture in Iberia and Ibero-America, University of Lisbon, 2016 Humboldt Prize Lecture, Freie Universität 2018

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER.

1995 Corruption and Society in Mexican History. University of Chicago. 1998 Revolutionary Frontiers: Popular Movements in the Mexican Revolution. University of Chicago. 1999 Republic in Print: History and Sociology of the Mexican Press. University of Chicago. 2000 Harvard-Yale-Chicago Mellon Latin American History Conference. University of Chicago. 2001 Latin America: Promise of the Past, Burden of the Future. University of Chicago. 2005 Political Imaginaries in Latin America. Janey Conference. New School for Social Research. 2006 Public Life of History (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Bain Attwood), Columbia University. 2009 Remembering Ruth Cardoso (with Lilia Schwarcz), Columbia University 2009 Borders and Boundaries (with Elizabeth Povinelli, Didier Fassin and Eric Fassin), Columbia University. 2014 Mexican Mondays lecture series (Columbia University) 2014 What is Happening in Michoacán? (Columbia University) 2014 The State of Education in Mexico (with Blanca Heredia), (Columbia University and CIDE) 2015 Emergent Forms of Religious Life in Mexico, co-organized with Prof. Karen Barkey (IRCPL and Center for Mexican Studies, Columbia) 2018 Antimafia movements in Sicily and Mexico (with Naor Yehoyada and Natalia Mendoza). (Columbia U) 2018 Las encrucijadas de la democracia (CIDE, Mexico City-- keynote addresses by Charles Taylor and Craig Calhoun).

2013 to present Organizer of the “Mexican Mondays” lecture series, that hosts about 6 speakers per semester.

2013 to present Organizer of the Mexico Leader’s Forum, that has brought the following public speakers to Columbia University including Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Father Alejandro Solalinde and Bishop José Raúl Vera, Supreme Court Justice José Ramón Cossío.

FOUNDATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1997 Associate Member, Laboratoire de Sciences Sociales, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.

1999 Selection committee for the American Historical Association’s Beveridge Award and Dunning Prize.

2002 Conseil Scientifique of the Department de Sciences Sociales, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.

2004 Program Committee for the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association.

Page 16. Claudio Lomnitz 17 2006-2013 Member of the Board, Social Science Research Council.

2007 Secretary, Social Science Research Council.

2009- to date Board Member, Institute for Latin American Studies, Princeton University

2010-2015 Advisory Board Member, ‘Desigualdades Network’ (Germany).

2013-to date Board Member, Casa del Ahuizote (Mexico City).

2016 Board Member, Arquetopia Foundation.

2016 External Academic Board, El Colegio de Michoacán.

2018 Founding member Fundación Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

At Columbia University (current): Director of the Center for Mexican Studies, Member of the Executive Committee of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference; Member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Latin American Studies; Member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Member of the Board of the Institute for Religion and Public Life.

REFEREEING:

Journals: Nueva Antropología, Estudios Sociológicos, Iztapalapa, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Mexican Studies, Ethnos, World Politics, and Public Culture. Foundations: National Science Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico), National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council. Publishers: Editorial Grijalbo, Fondo de Cultura Económica, the University of Oklahoma Press, Duke University Press, University of Texas Press, Westview Press, Princeton University Press, El Colegio de México Press, University of California Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Columbia University Press, Temple University Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Chicago Press, Stanford University Press.

REVIEWS FOR APPOINTMENTS, TENURE AND PROMOTION:

Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton; Virginia Technological Institute; University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University; Cornell University; University of Chicago; Washington State University; University of California-Davis; New School for Social Research; New York University; Harvard University; University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Johns Hopkins University; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Maryland; City University of New York; University of California-Berkeley; Princeton University; Boston University; University of Texas; University of Wyoming; University of Michigan; University of Oklahoma; University of California-Los Angeles, Brown University,

LANGUAGES:

Spanish, English, French, Portuguese.

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