Setha M. Low

Environmental Psychology

Ph.D., M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

B.A. Psychology, Pitzer College, Claremont

office: room 6203.16
phone: 212/817.8725
fax: 631/ 329.7358
email: slow@gc.cuny.edu

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RESEARCH INTERESTS Anthropology of space and place, cultural aspects of design, housing and community development, gated communities and landscapes of fear, security post 9/11, cultural conservation and historic preservation, public space, medical anthropology, social distress and illness, qualitative research methods and ethnography.

LANGUAGES Spanish, French

FIELDWORK Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela; United States; Japan; Spain, France, Italy; site visits: Ghana, Kenya, Senegal.

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Conservation Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute, Faculty Fellow of the Rockefeller Seminar on Gender and Security, Anthony Leeds' Prize for On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture, Victor Turner Award Honorable Mention for On the Plaza, Robert Textor Family Prize For Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Council for International Exchange of Scholars Fulbright Fellowship

CONSULTANCIES Advisor, Town Board of East Hampton, Rapid Ethnographic Assessment. Jacob Riis Park, National Park Service,Cultural Values for Heritage Conservation, Getty Center, Los Angeles, Ethnography Training Workshop, National Park Service, New Orleans, Values Survey and Ethnography of Prospect, Pelham Bay, and Van Cortlandt Parks. New York City Parks Department, New York, Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedure. Independence National Historical Park, National Park Service, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedure. Access to Ellis Island Project, National Park Service

ELECTED OFFICES Vice President, President, Past-President of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology, Secretary of the Latin America Anthropology, Board Member of the Society for Medical Anthropology and the General Anthropology Division, Board of Directors (and Chair) of the Environmental Design Research Association

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

2004 Common Ground: New Rules for Urban Parks. Austin: University of Texas Press. With D. Taplin, S. Scheld, and K. Brower.

2003 Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. New York and London: Routledge.

	2003 The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Edited with D. Lawrence.
	2000 On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture.Austin: University of Texas Press.
	1999 Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Reprinted 2002.

1995 Children of the Urban Poor: The Sociocultural Environment of Growth, Development and Malnutrition in Guatemala City. Boulder: Westview Press. With F. Johnston.

1992 Place Attachment.New York:Plenum Publishing. Edited with I. Altman.

1989 Gender, Health, and Illness. Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere Publishing. Edited with D. Davis.

1989 Housing, Culture and Design:A Comparative Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Edited with E. Chambers. Nominated for the Pioneer America Society Book Award.

1985 Culture, Politics and Medicine in Costa Rica. Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach. (original publisher, Bedford Hills: Regrave Publishing Press).

Special Journal Issues

2001 Geographies of Violence and Racism. City and Society, XIII (1).

2001 Remapping the City: Place, Order and Ideology. American Anthropologist 103(1).

1998 Gender, Class and History in the City. City and Society, Annual Review.

1989 Gender, Health and Illness: The Case of Nerves. Special Issue of Health Care for Women International, 10 (2-3): ix-318. With D. Davis.

1988 Space and Culture. Special Issue of Architecture and Behavior, 4(3): 185-273.