Ida Susser

(PhD Columbia, 1981; Prof) Medical anthropology; contemporary United States studies, urban, political economy, gender; Southern Africa ()

Honors, Grants, and Awards

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and National Institute of Health Fellowship, "From the Cosmopolitan to the Personal: Cultural Conceptions of Gender and Sexuality in the Battle Against HIV/AIDS," 2002.
• Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, from the Society for the Study of North America (SANA) of the American Anthropological Association, 2001.
• MacArthur Research and Writing Fellowship for Spaces of Autonomy: Defining Sustainable Strategies to Combat HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, 2001.
• Annual Awards from the Fogarty Foundation for Anthropological Research and Training Concerning HIV Prevention in Namibia (with Richard Lee), 1995 - present.

Recent Representative Publications

Books

• 1997 Medical Anthropology in the World System: A Critical Perspective [with Hans Baer and Merrill Singer]. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and Garvey.
• 1982 Normal Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood. New York: Oxford University Press.

Edited Books

• 2001 The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Blackwell Publishers.
• 2001 La Sociologia Urbana de Manuel Castells. Alianza Editorial.
• 2000 Cultural Diversity in the Anthropology United States: A Critical Reader [with Thomas Patterson]. Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association. Blackwell Publishers.
• 1997 The Anthropology of AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean [with George Bond, John Kreniske, and Joan Vincent]. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Guest Editorships

• 1998 "Critiquing Flexible Labor" [with Nila Chatterjee], Critique of Anthropology 18(3).
• 1997 "The New World Disorder," Critique of Anthropology 17(4).
• 1996 "Anthropological Perspectives on the Informational Society," Critique of Anthropology 16(1).

Articles

• 2002 "The Health Rights of Women in the Age of AIDS," International Journal of Epidemiology 31:45-48.
• 2002 "Losing Ground: Advancing Capitalism and the Relocation of Working Class Communities," pp. 247-290 in Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings, Politics, and Identity, David Nugent, ed. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• 2001 "Sexual Negotiations in Relation to Political Mobilization: The Prevention of HIV in Comparative Context," The Journal of AIDS and Behavior (June) 5:163-172.

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