Paula Lopez Caballero

After a BA and an MA in Mexican colonial history, Paula Lopez Caballero received her PhD in anthropology from the EHESS in 2007. She was visiting scholar at Columbia University in 2008 and post-doctoral research fellow at CERI Sciences Po between 2008 and 2010 with a grant from the Ile-de-France region. She is a lecturer and a research fellow at the[](http://www.colmex.mx/)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her first book about the Indians during the colonial period was published in Mexico in 2003. A reviewed version of her doctoral dissertation is about to be published in France. 
Paula Lopez Caballero’s research, at the crossroads of history and anthropology, seeks to analyze the Nation-State by exploring the slow process of social differentiation, which defines what and who is "autochthone" as well as what and who is "national". She also studies the role played by the State in that process, not only by analyzing the State "from the bottom" or from a "de-centralized" perspective, but rather by investigating a distinct object – namely, the national formation of alterity. 
Her most recent research project addresses the issue of patrimonialization and its connection with the formation of the Nation, through the various institutions set up in the 20th century by the Mexican State in order to "manage" rural populations, some of which were identified as "autochtones", and through the public policies protecting historical and cultural heritage.
Personnal pageon the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México website.

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