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Setha Low
Born	(1948-03-14) March 14, 1948 Los Angeles, California
Education	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1971)
Occupation	Anthropologist

Setha M. Low (born March 14, 1948) is an American anthropologist. She is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Personal life and education

Low grew up in Los Angeles and currently resides in Brooklyn. She received a B.A. in Psychology from Pitzer College, Claremont, California in 1969 and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1971 and 1976.

Academic career

is a former president of the American Anthropological Association, a professor Low also served as a Conservation Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute.

University of Pennsylvania (1976–1988)

Assistant and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, City and Regional Planning, and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

1976-1988 Associate Professor and Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, City Planning, and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

The Graduate Center (1989-present) 1989-present Professor, Environmental Psychology and Anthropology, The Graduate Center

Selected Publications

Her most recent research includes an ethnography of residents in gated communities in San Antonio, Texas and on Long Island and a study of urban parks with case studies including New York City's Prospect Park, Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, and Jacob Riis Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area. More broadly Low's research includes work on the anthropology of space and place, medical anthropology, urban anthropology, historic preservation, landscapes of fear, security/insecurity, and gating in Latin America, the United States, and the cities of Western Europe.

Books

• The People, Place and Space Reader. New York and London: Routledge. 2014. (edited with J. Gieseking, W. Mangold, C. Katz, and S. Saegert.)
• The Politics of Public Space. New York: Routledge. 2006. (edited with N. Smith)
• Rethinking Urban Parks: Lessons in Culture and Diversity. Austin: University of Texas. 2005. (with D.Taplin and S. Scheld)
• 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. 2003. (edited with D. Lawrence-Zuñiga)
• On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2000.
• Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1999.
• Children of the Urban Poor: The Sociocultural Environment of Growth, Development and Malnutrition in Guatemala City. Boulder: Westview Press. 1995. (with F.Johnston)
• Place Attachment. New York: Plenum Publishing. 1992. (edited with I.Altman)
• Gender, Health, and Illness. Washington, DC: Hemisphere Publishing. 1989. (edited with D.Davis)
• Housing, Culture and Design: A Comparative Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1989. (edited with E.Chambers)
• Culture, Politics and Medicine in Costa Rica. Bedford Hills: Redgrave Publishing. 1985.
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Academic Articles

Setha Low has published more than eighty? academic articles

• 1996 "Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space," American Ethnologist 23(4): 861–879.
• 1995 "Indigenous Architectural Representations: Mesoamerican and Caribbean Foundations of the Spanish American Plaza," American Anthropologist 97(4): 748–762.

Other publications

Setha Low has published a number of chapters in books, technical reports, book reviews, and ...

References

• Getty Conservation Institute (2002). "Conservation Guest Scholars". GCI Newsletter. Vol. 17, no. 2. Retrieved January 16, 2009.
• Marquardt, Katy (April 25, 2008). "Recipe for a City Park's Success: The cultural diversity of its users can make or break an urban space". U.S. News and World Report. Retrieved January 16, 2009.
• Robinson, Eugene (December 4, 2007). "Eugene Robinson - We the Paranoid". The Washington Post. ISSN 0740-5421. Retrieved January 16, 2009.

External links

• Setha M. Low, Professor of Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY

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