Alexander von Humboldt Award for Claudio Lomnitz

Anthropologist from Columbia University to do research at Freie Universität. No 307/2017 from Nov 06, 2017 Anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz from Columbia University was granted an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. He was nominated for this award by Stephanie Schütze from Freie Universität. As part of the award, Lomnitz will do research in cooperation with colleagues at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, during the coming years on the topic "Crisis of the Family, Crisis of the State." "Claudio Lomnitz's scholarly and intellectual significance stems from his brilliant historical-anthropological analysis of political culture and the study of the emergence of nation states and national ideology," explains the cultural and social anthropologist Stephanie Schütze. His ability to understand political cultures in national contexts, based on local and regional contexts from his historical and anthropological studies, makes his theoretical and methodological approach unique. Lomnitz's work is also characterized by a high degree of compatibility with social science research on the transformation of state and nation as well as on transnational processes between the USA and Mexico. Claudio Lomnitz majored in anthropology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa in Mexico City, and earned his doctorate at Stanford University in 1987.