Claudio Lomnitz, anthropologist and historian, graduated from the first generation of the UAM-Iztapalapa. He is a tenured professor of anthropology at the University from Columbia, in New York, and a member of El Colegio Nacional. Lomnitz writes for the press on a regular basis, and has been recognized as an anthropologist, historian, and writer.

He is the author of several books, including: Las salidas del labyrinth: Culture and ideology in the Mexican national space (Joaquín Mortiz, 1995); Idea of death in Mexico (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006); antisemitism and ideology of the Mexican Revolution (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010), El regreso of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón (ERA, 2016, and Our America: Utopia and persistence of a Jewish family (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018). The book of him more recent The torn social fabric is in the press with Ediciones Era.