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Ida Susser is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on urban social movements, gender, global health, and political polarization, with fieldwork in the U.S., Southern Africa, and Puerto Rico. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has authored seminal works including Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (Oxford, 2012) and AIDS, Sex and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), which won the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize. Her work examines themes like urban commons, austerity policies, and HIV/AIDS activism, supported by grants from the NSF, MacArthur Foundation, and NIH. She has held leadership roles in major anthropological organizations, including past president of the American Ethnological Society and founding president of the Society for the Anthropology of North America.
Education:
- PhD in Anthropology, Columbia University
Research Interests:
Dr. Susser’s research integrates urban ethnography with critical theory, addressing topics such as:
- Political polarization and urban commons in post-2008 Europe
- Gender dynamics in global health crises
- Historical and comparative urban inequality
- Social movements and scale-crossing activism
Grants & Awards:
- MacArthur Foundation Research Fellowship
- National Science Foundation Award
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
- Eileen Basker Memorial Prize (2012)
Professional Contributions:
As a leader in engaged anthropology, she co-chaired the 2008 Mexico City AIDS Society Conference and founded Athena: Advancing Gender Equity in HIV/AIDS. Her recent work probes housing rights and displacement in New York’s Greenpoint/Williamsburg neighborhoods, linking historical and contemporary urban struggles.
