Ana Lía Kornblit

Ana Lía Kornblit (17 June 1941 – 17 February 2025) was an Argentine sociologist. Working within medical sociology, she wrote several books and was a professor of social psychology at the University of Buenos Aires. She was a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow and won the Konex Award in Psychology twice (2006 and 2016).

Biography Kornblit was born on 17 June 1941 in Buenos Aires. She also worked for the Qualitas Foundation as a health qualitative methodology teacher. She also worked with UNICEF on some of their studies, particularly on youth suicide and child sexual abuse. Kornblit was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of attitudes, beliefs, and risky sexual behaviors of Buenos Aires youths". She won the Konex Award in Psychology twice, in 2006 and 2016. She won a 2006 Houssay Career Award.

Kornblit died on 17 February 2025.