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Anthropology Department, City University of New York,65 Fifth Ave,
New York, NY 10016
Phone:212-665-3551
Email:[email protected]
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| University Affiliations |
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Education and Training
| PhD
| 1980
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| MPHIL
| 1975
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| MA
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| University of Chicago
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| BA
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| Barnard College
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Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
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| Dr. Ida Susser’s research focuses on the changing patterns of inequality and poverty, social movements, gender and HIV/AIDS, and is based on fieldwork in New York City, Puerto Rico, and southern Africa. She is currently involved in an NIH funded project, Partnership Training and Research, with respect to women's mobilization, AIDS and strategies for prevention, treatment, and care in southern Africa, as well as a project concerned with gender and HIV/AIDS among the Ju'/hoansi of the Namibia and Botswana Kalahari. Dr. Susser has taught anthropology and community and international health at Columbia University and the Mailman School, the New School, Hunter College and the Graduate Center for the City University of New York.
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Selected Professional Affiliations |
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President, American Ethnological Society |
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| Selected Honors and Awards |
| ▪ MacArthur Research and Writing Fellowship 2002 |
| ▪ NEH/NIH Health Research Fellowship 2003 |
| ▪ Award for Distinguished Achievement in Anthropological Research in North America |
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| Selected Editorial Boards |
| ▪ American Anthropologist |
| ▪ Critique of Anthropology |
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Selected New York City Activities |
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Poverty, gender and HIV/AIDS
Dr. Susser conducts ethnographic research among poor and homeless women with respect to HIV/AIDS prevention.
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Selected Global Activities
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| Women and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
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Dr. Susser conducts ethnographic research concerning community mobilization, women's strategies and the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa (Namibia, Botswana and South AFrica) - among urban, rural and indigenous populations.
Countries: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa
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