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Centro de Estudios Sociológicos
El Colegio de México
Camino al Ajusco # 20
Pedregal de Santa Teresa, Tlalpan
C.P. 10740 México, D.F
(55) 5449 3063
EDUCATION
NITZAN SHOSHAN
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D. The University of Chicago, Anthropology 2008
Dissertation title: “Reclaiming Germany: Young Right Extremists, the Return of
the Nation, and the State of Politics on the Streets of East Berlin”
Dissertation Committee: Jean Comaroff (chair), Susan Gal, Andreas Glaeser,
Michael Silverstein.
M.A. The University of Chicago, Anthropology 2003
Master’s Thesis: “Magic, Ethnicity, and Class in Contemporary Israeli Society”
B.A.
Harvard College, Social Studies 2000 (magna cum laude)
POSITIONS
2010- Professor, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México,
México D.F., México
2008-2010 Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences
Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
The University of Chicago
2007 Adjunct professor, Department of Anthropology, Hofstra University,
Hempstead, NY
1998-2000 Research assistant, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA
SELECTED AWARDS, HONORS, AND GRANTS
2012-2014 CONACYT Ciencia Basica Research Grant for the project “Tiempo y
política”
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2007-2008 Josephine De Kármán Fellowship
2005-2007 Hannah Holborn Gray Advanced Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities &
Humanistic Social Sciences
2004-2005 International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, Social Science
Research Council
2003 Department of Anthropology Leiffer Pre-Field Research Grant, The
University of Chicago
2001-2004 Century Scholarship, The University of Chicago
2000 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work, Harvard
University
2000 Phi Beta Kappa
1999 Dunwalke Fund Fellowship for International Research, Harvard
University
1999 Dorot Foundation Summer Research Grant
1997-2000 John Harvard Scholarship, Harvard University
1996-1997 Harvard College Scholarship, Harvard University
PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS
In progress
The Management of Hate: Affective Governance and the Specters of
Nationalism on the Streets of East Berlin. (book manuscript under
consideration at Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press,
and Duke University Press)
“La política de la utopía en el pueblo de Santa Fe, D.F.” article in
preparation
Forthcoming “Managing hate: Political delinquency and affective governance in
Germany.” Accepted for publication in Cultural Anthropology (peer
reviewed), expected publication February 2014.
“El lugar de los extremos: paisaje urbano, alteridad étnica, y jóvenes de
extrema derecha en el Berlín oriental.” Accepted for publication in
Estudios Sociológicos (peer reviewed).
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"´There goes the neighborhood´: Narrating the decline of place in East
Berlin," accepted for publication in Post-Industrial Debates: The
Economics and Ecology of Disconnection, Ismael Vaccaro, Krista Harper,
and D. Seth Murray (Eds.), Berghahn Books.
2012 “Time at a standstill: Loss, accumulation, and the past conditional in an
East Berlin neighborhood.” Ethnos 77(1):24-49 (peer reviewed).
“Post-Fordist Affect: Introduction.” Co-authored with Andrea
Muehlebach, Anthropological Quarterly 85(2):317-344.
“Placing the Extremes: Cityscape, Ethnic “Others,” and Young Right
Extremists in East Berlin.” In Mapping the Extreme Right in
Contemporary Europe. A. Mammone, E. Godin and B. Jenkins (eds.),
New York: Routledge, pp.48-61.
2011 “La gestión del odio y la tolerancia en la Alemania neoliberal: un proyecto
de investigación etnográfica.” Estudios Sociológicos 86:713-729 (peer
reviewed)
“Neoliberal Displacements: Political Delinquency and the Eclipse of the
Social in Germany.” The Carceral Notebooks 6:33-47
2008 “Placing the Extremes: Cityscape, Ethnic “Others,” and Young Right
Extremists in East Berlin.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies,
Vol. 16 No. 3: 377-391 (peer reviewed).
“From SS to Stasi and Back Again Ossis, Wessis, and Right-Extremists
in Contemporary East Germany.” In Ossi Wessi. Backman, Donald and
Aida Sakalauskaite (eds.), London: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 241-
266.
2002 Basic training. Topic 1:94.
EDITED PUBLICATIONS
2012 Post-Fordist Affect. Co-edited (with Andrea Muehlebach) special issue of
Anthropological Quarterly, 85(2).
REVIEWS
2012 Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working-Class Populism and the
Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe, edited by Don Kalb and
Gábor Halmai. Anthropology of East Europe Review 30(2):110-111.
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2010 Blood and Culture: Youth, Right Wing Extremism, and National
Belonging in Contemporary Germany, by Cynthia Miller-Idriss. American
Journal of Sociology, Vol. 116, No. 2
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2013 “The national thing: Fabricating a German essence in multikulti Berlin,”
20 th International Conference of Europeanists. Crisis and Contingency:
States of (In)Stability, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“The retinal machinery of the State” (lecture), Seminario Permanente
Culture y Poder, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de
México, México D.F.
“El futuro de la utopía en el pueblo de Santa Fe, D.F.” (lecture), Seminario
Permanente sobre el Pensamiento Antropológico, Centro de Estudios
Antropológicos, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán
“Reflexiones en torno a la discriminación y a la tolerancia” (lecture),
Jornadas críticas y reflexivas sobre discriminaciones, Centro de Estudios
Sociológicos, El Colegio de México, México D.F.
2012 “La temporalidad social como experiencia política del tiempo,” III
Congreso Internacional de la Filosofía de la Historia, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
“La Amistad y la traición entre jóvenes de la derecha extrema en Berlín
oriental,” II Congreso Nacional de Antropología Social y Etnografía:
Soberanías negociadas en las cotidianidades del siglo XXI, Morelia,
Michoacán
"Menacing signs: Young neo-Nazis and the spatial semiotics of fear in
East Berlin," 12th European Association of Social Anthropologists
Biennial Conference: Uncertainty and Disquiet, Nanterre, France
"Advances in the Sciences of Exorcism: Locating the Right Extremist
Thing," Colloquium Entre Espacios, Latin American Institute (LAI), Freie
Universität Berlin, Berlin
"Post-Fordist Affect." Presentation at the seminar Tiempo y Política, IIF-
UNAM, Mexico City
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"La etnografía urbana contemporánea." Presentation at the seminar of
methodology, Latin America Institute (LAI), Freie Universität Berlin,
Berlin
2011 “La violencia, la visibilidad, y el paisaje urbano en Berlín” (lecture).
Graduate program in sociology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba,
Brazil
“La visibilidad urbana y el paisaje simbólico en Berlín” (lecture). Urban
Studies, The Center for the Research and Documentation of the
Contemporary History of Brazil, The Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
"Post-Fordist affect and the governance of hate in Berlin," 18th
International Conference of Europeanists: The Causes, Consequences,
and Meaning of Transnationalization (The Council for European Studies
annual meeting), Barcelona, Spain
"A time to despair: The political temporalities of hate in a neoliberal
Germany." American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,
Montreal, Canada
"El estado perplejo o cómo leer un neonazi." XXXIII Coloquio de
Antropología e Historia Regionales: Legibilidad, legitimidad y legalidad
en América Latina, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán.
2010 “Facing the Facts: Secretive Remedies for Hazardous Hopes.” Peculiar
Institutions: the 2010 Weissbourd Conference, The University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
“Order and Transgression: The Production of Political Delinquency.”
Seminario de la Society of Fellows, Universidad de Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009 “Time, the Commodity, and Post-Socialist Affect in East Berlin.”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
“Reclaiming Germany – Notes Toward a Book Manuscript”. Fall
symposium, Society of Fellows, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Lost Worlds, Material Accumulations, and Landscapes of Memory in an
East Berlin Neighborhood.” Worldmaking: The 2009 Weissbourd
Conference, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008 “Integralist Trends: Ultra-Nationalist Nativism and Europe’s “New Poor”
in East Berlin.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, CA
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“Making a Place for the Secular (Ultra-)Nation in East Berlin.” American
Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
“Hatred on Sale: The Entanglements of Political Commitments and
Consumption Choices among Right Extremists in East Berlin.” 16th
International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, IL
2007 “Life is Prettier without Nazis: The Aesthetics of Violence and Visibility
in East Berlin.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC
“Time at a Standstill: The Place of Loss and Accumulation in East
Berlin.” Remembering Landscapes conference, Columbia University, New
York
“Memoria y Política en la Extrema Derecha Alemana”. Seminario
Memoria y Política, UNAM, México, D.F., México
“‘Más bello vivir sin Nazis’: La estética de la violencia y la visibilidad en
Berlín oriental.” Coloquio: Imaginarios, intervenciones y apropiaciones
del espacio urbano, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, México D.F.,
México
“Moral Decline and the Temporality of the Commodity in an East Berlin
‘Ghetto”. Workshop on Social Structures and Processes in Urban Space,
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 “From SS to Stasi and Back Again Ossis, Wessis, and Right-Extremists
in Contemporary Germany.” Ossi Wessi: The 14 th Annual
Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California at
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2005 “Producing Home, Provoking Fear: Extreme Right Spaces in
Contemporary East Berlin.” Rechte Räume analysieren Conference,
Humboldt Universität, Berlin.
2003 “Nationalist Discourses, Magic, and the Politics of the State: The
Semiotics of Class, Ethnicity, and Religion in Contemporary Israel.”
Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Conference, University of
California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2011- Co-coordinator of Conacyt project CB 2011-01164459 Tiempo y Política,
México D.F.
Co-organizer of permanent seminar “Tiempo y Política,” Instituto de
Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, México D.F.
2013 Commentator, book presentation “Modernidad e historia. Cuestiones
críticas” by Saurabh Dube, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El
Colegio de México, México D.F.
Commentator, “Silencio y secreto: Nación, raza y colonialidad en la
pampa Argentina desde un estudio de caso,” by Mario Rufer, Seminario
Nación y Alteridad, UAM Cuajimalpa, México D.F.
Commentator, “Passes,” presentation by Rihan Yeh, Centro de Estudios
Antropológicos, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán
2012 Co-organizer and commentator of the panel “Los jóvenes y las culturas de
la desigualdad: Una perspectiva internacional,” Conferencia
Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales: El estado de las
ciencias sociales en América Latina y el Caribe (CLACSO), México D.F.
2011 Panel co-organizer, “The Affective (After)Life of Fordism in Post-Fordist
Europe,” 18th International Conference of Europeanists: The Causes,
Consequences, and Meaning of Transnationalization (The Council for
European Studies annual meeting), Bracelona, Spain
Commentator, “Dispossession, displacement, affect” panel, 18th
International Conference of Europeanists: The Causes, Consequences,
and Meaning of Transnationalization (The Council for European Studies
annual meeting), Bracelona, Spain
Panel co-organizer, “The politics of time and the temporality of politics:
Legacies of futures, pasts, and presents,” American Anthropological
Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada
2010 Panel organizer, “Neoliberal (Dis)Enchantments: the De-politicization of
Theory, Publics, and Subjects,” Peculiar Institutions: the 2010 Bernard
Weissbourd Memorial Conference, The University of Chicago, Chicago,
IL
2009 Panel organizer, “Worlds Undone,” Worldmaking: the 2009 Bernard
Weissbourd Memorial Conference, The University of Chicago, Chicago,
IL
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2008 Panel co-organizer, “Integralism, Citizenship, and Political Cultures of
Europe,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, CA
2007 Panel organizer, “(Un)figuring Terror: Violence, Visibility, Uncertainty,”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC
2005 Conference co-organizer, Rechte Räume analysieren, Humboldt
Universität, Berlin, Germany
2004 Conference co-organizer, Changing Welfare State: Exploring European
Social Policies and Populations in Space and Time, The University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003-2004 Coordinator, Anthropology of Europe Workshop, The University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2011- Time and politics: The future in the village of Santa Fe, Mexico D.F.
Ethnographic fieldwork on community mobilization and local urban
renewal processes in Santa Fe, Mexico City. Funded by CONACYT.
2011- The management of hate and tolerance in neoliberal Germany: the
limits of intercultural integration. Ethnographic fieldwork on
intercultural and integration initiatives in Berlin. Funded by PROMEP.
2004-2005 Dissertation research. Conducted long-term participant observation
ethnography with extreme right wing groups in East Berlin. Sponsored by
the Social Science Research Council.
2003 Preliminary dissertation research. on the extreme right wing in Berlin
and East Germany. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Chicago.
1999 Honors thesis research. Conducted ethnographic fieldwork on religion
and magical practices among Jews of Middle-Eastern origin in Israel.
Sponsored by Harvard University.
1998-2001 Research assistant. Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard
School of Public Health, Harvard University. Conducted qualitative and
quantitative research and data analysis on health, working families, and
HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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1997-1998 Assistant. Judaica Division, Widener Library, Harvard University.
Archival research for library acquisitions.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nationalism and violence; urban anthropology; the state; xenophobia and racism; youth
cultures; multicultural politics and neoliberal governance; memory and temporality;
social space; phenomenology of place; Europe; Germany.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013 Language, culture, and power: discourse analysis. El Colegio de México,
Mexico City. (Ph.D.)
Thesis seminar: Violence and human rights. El Colegio de México,
Mexico City. (Ph.D.)
2012 Thesis seminar: Violence and human rights. El Colegio de México,
Mexico City. (Ph.D.)
2011 Language, culture, and power: discourse analysis. El Colegio de México,
Mexico City. (Ph.D.)
Discourse analysis. The Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brasil.
(MA/Ph.D.)
Urban ethnography: interaction, conflict, and the management of
difference in the city. El Colegio de México, Mexico City (Ph.D.)
Thesis seminar. El Colegio de México, Mexico City (M.A.)
2010-2011 Thesis seminar: Social movements and collective action. El Colegio de
México, Mexico City (Ph.D.)
2008-2010 Social Sciences 12100-12200-12300 “Self, Culture and Society” [seminar
style undergraduate yearlong social sciences Core course in foundational
social science literature], The University of Chicago
2007 Anthropology 106 “Introduction to the Anthropology of the Middle-East,”
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Completed Seminar on Leading Class Discussions at the University of Chicago, 2009
Completed Seminar on Course Design at the University of Chicago, 2007
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THESIS COMMITTEES
2013- Álvarez Corona, Luis Guillermo. “Del porno al posporno:
representaciones de la sexualidad y performance del cuerpo,” MA,
Interdisciplinary Women´s Studies Program, El Colegio de México
(committee member).
2013- Aguirre, Sebastián Giraldo. “Padres auténticos o tradicionales, el ejercicio
de la paternidad en un grupo de varones gays de sectores medios del área
metropolitana de la Ciudad de México,” MA, Interdisciplinary Women´s
Studies Program, El Colegio de México (director).
2012- Tamariz Estrada, María Cristina (ABD) "Los rituales del cuerpo:
resignificando la vejez a través del danzón en la Ciudad de México,"
Ph.D., Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México (director).
2012- Pasquier Merin, Ayari Genevieve (ABD). "La participación en proyectos
colectivos promovidos por iniciativas de desarrollo rural: desigualdad
social y negociación del poder en las interacciones cotidianas," Ph.D.,
Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México (Co-director).
2012- Gutiérrez Martínez, Ana Paulina (ABD). "Configuración y legitimación de
las identidades trans femeninas en la Ciudad de México (2000-2013),"
Ph.D., Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México
(Committee member).
2013 Morales Sod, Gabriel. “Las colonias y el crimen: análisis de la
distribución del delito en la ciudad de México,” BA, Centro de Estudios
Internacionales, El Colegio de México (Committee member).
Robledo, Carolina. “Drama social y política del duelo de los familiares de
desaparecidos en el marco de la guerra contra el narcotráfico, Tijuana
2006-2012,” Ph.D., Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de
México (Committee member).
Moran Escamilla, Jorge Damián. "La interacción en situaciones de
desastres en tres momentos dentro del área metropolitana de la Ciudad de
México," Ph.D., Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México
(Committee member).
2012 Gutiérrez Domínguez, Lisett María. "Prácticas discursivas y construcción
de subjetividades en quinceañeras mexicanas de clase media," MA,
Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer, El Colegio de
México (Director).
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2011 Londoño, Diana Silva "Negociando la (In)-formalidad. Las Contiendas
por el desalojo del Comercio Ambulante en Centro Histórico de la Ciudad
de México (1990-2008)" (Negotiating informality: the struggle for the
removal of street vendors from the historical center of Mexico City 1990-
2008), Ph.D. thesis, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de
México, México D.F., México (reader)
2010 Harkenss, Nicholas "The Voices of Seoul: Sound, Body, and Christianity
in South Korea," Ph.D. thesis, Department of Anthropology, The
University of Chicago, IL (external reader)
2009 Buck Quijada, Justine, "Opening the Roads: History and Religious
Practice in Post-Soviet Buryatia," Ph.D. thesis, Department of
Anthropology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (external reader)
Morgan, Marston, "New Societies in the South Pacific: An Ethnography
of French Sovereignty in New Caledonia," Ph.D. thesis, Department of
Anthropology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (external reader)
SERVICE
2012- Academic executive committee, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El
Colegio de México
2013 Reviewer, Programa Interinstitucional de Estudios sobre la Región de
América del Norte
2012 Reviewer, American Ethnologist
Reviewer, Nueva Antropología
2011 Reviewer, American Anthropologist
Admissions committee, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de
México, México D.F., México
2010 Reviewer, Estudios Sociologicos
Reviewer, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2009-2010 Junior co-chair, The Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, The University
of Chicago
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2010- Member, editorial committee, Estudios Sociológicos
2008- Member, Council for European Studies
2008- Member, CES Immigration Research Group
2007- Member, American Anthropological Association
2007- Member, Society for the Anthropology of Europe
2007- Member, Society for Cultural Anthropology
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Hebrew (first language), German, and Spanish
REFERENCES
Prof. Jean Comaroff, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago
(jcomaro@midway.uchicago.edu)
Prof. Susan Gal, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, The University of
Chicago (s-gal@uchicago.edu)
Prof. Andreas Glaeser, Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago
(a-glaeser@uchicago.edu)
Prof. Michael Silverstein, Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology,
The University of Chicago (m-silverstein@uchicago.edu)
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