Carola Lentz | |
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![]() Carola Lentz, 2016, in Hamile, Ghana | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Göttingen (first state exam) University of Hamburg (second state exam) University of Göttingen (Master of Science) Leibniz University Hannover (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Free University of Berlin Northwestern University, Illinois Goethe University, Frankfurt Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study University of Mainz Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle Harvard University, Cambridge |
Main interests | ethnicity, nationalism, politics of memory, land rights, land disputes, colonial history, anthropology of the state, middle class, and anthropological theories of culture |
Carola Lentz (*April 21, 1954, in Braunschweig) is a German social anthropologist and, since November 2020, president of the Goethe-Institut.[1][2] She is senior research professor at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.[3]