Ida Susser

Prof. 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.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2011	*Norman Street Revisited: Claiming a Right to New York City*
	New York: Oxford University Press (in press).

2009	*AIDS, Sex and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in a Southern Africa*
	Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publications.

2003	*Medical Anthropology in the World System, 2nd Edition*
	(with Hans Baer and Merrill Singer)
	Westport: Praeger Publishers.

1982	*Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood*
	New York: Oxford University Press.

Edited Books

2009	Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century
	(with Jeff Maskovsky)
	Boulder: Paradigm Press.

2003	*Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World*
	(with Jane Schneider)
	Berg.

2001	*The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory*
	Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

2001	*Cultural Diversity in the Anthropology of the United States:*
	A Critical Reader
	(with Thomas Patterson)
	Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association
	Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

1997	*The Anthropology of AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean*
	(with George Bond, John Kreniske and Joan Vincent)
	Boulder: Westview Press.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

2010	“The Anthropologist as Social Critic: Working Toward a More Engaged
	Anthropology” In Current Anthropology volume 51, S2, April 2010

2008	“Women in the Time of AIDS: Barriers, Bargains and Benefits” in AIDS
	Education and Prevention, 20 (2) pp. 91-106 (with J. Mantell and Z. Stein)

2007	“Women and AIDS in the Second Millenium” in Women Studies Quarterly 35
	(1,2). Pp. 336-344

2007	“Confounding Conventional Wisdom: The Ju’/hoansi and HIV/AIDS” (with
	Richard Lee) in Updating the San: Image and Reality of an African People in the
	21st Century. Eds, R. Hitchcock, et al., Senri Ethnological Series no. 70,
	National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. Pp.45-61

2006	“Working Class Struggles in New York City: from the neighborhood to the
	homeless shelter” in Rome and New York City: Comparative Urban Problems at
	the End of the 20th Century. Eds. Victor Goldsmith and Eugenio Sonnino,
	Casa Editrice Universita, La Sapienza. Pp.151-171

2006	“Castells: The City and the Grassroots: an anthropological perspective,”
	International Journal of Urban and Regional Planning, 30(1). Pp. 212-218

2004	“From the Cosmopolitan to the Personal: women’s mobilization with respect
	to HIV/AIDS” in Social Movements, Ed. June Nash. Blackwell Publishers.
	Pp.272-284

2003	“Ju/’hoansi Survival in the face of HIV: questions of poverty and gender” in
	Anthropologica 45. Pp.121-128

2002	“Losing Ground: Advancing Capitalism and the Relocation of Working Class
	Communities” in Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings,
	Politics, and Identity, David Nugent (Ed.). Stanford University Press. Pp. 274-
	289

2002	“The Health Rights of Women in the Age of AIDS” in the International Journal
	of Epidemiology, 31. Pp. 45-48

2001	“Sexual Negotiations in relation to Political Mobilization: the prevention of
	HIV in comparative context” in The Journal of AIDS and Behavior. June 5(2).
	Pp. 163-172

2000	“Culture,Sexuality and Women’s Agency in the Prevention of HIV/AIDS in
	Southern Africa” with Zena Stein, in American Journal of Public Health, July
	90(7) Pp. 1042-1049

1999	“Inequality, Violence and Gender Relations in a Global City: New York, 1986-
	96” in special issue on "Gendered Violence," Mary Anglin (ed.). Identities:
	Global Studies in Culture and Power 5(2). Pp. 219-248

1997	"The Flexible Woman: Regendering Labor in the Informational Society,"
	Critique of Anthropology 17(4). Pp. 389-402

1996	"The Construction of Poverty and Homelessness in U.S. Cities," Annual
	Reviews in Anthropology 25. Pp. 411-435

1993	"Creating Family Forms: The exclusion of men and teenage boys from
	families in the New York City shelter system, 1987-91," Critique of
	Anthropology 13(3). Pp. 267-283

1991	"The Separation of Mothers and Children" in John Mollenkopf and Manuel
	Castells. The Dual City. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

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