Carola Lentz | |
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.jpg) Carola Lentz, 2016, in Hamile, Ghana | |
| Born | April 21, 1954 |
| 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]
- ^ Eva-Maria Magel: "Kulturmittlerin". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, (faz), 4 October 2019
- ^ Jörg Häntzschel: "Dekolonisierung – Die Ethnologin Carola Lentz wird Präsidentin des Goethe-Instituts. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1 October 2019
- ^ Carola Lentz receives a senior research professorship on October 1, 2019. Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, accessed: 7 April 2023.