Setha Low

Possui graduação em Psychology and Human Biology pela Pitzer College(1969) e pós-doutorado pela University of California Berkeley(1976). Atualmente é Professora da The City University of New York, Professora da The City University of New York, The Graduate Center - CUNY da The City University of New York, Diretora, Public Space Research Group da The City University of New York, Professora Adjunta, School of Architecture da The City College of New York, Pesquisadora Associada da University of Johannesburg, Pesquisadora Associada Emérita da Royal Institute of Technology, Membro de corpo editorial da City & Society e Membro de corpo editorial da Home Cultures. Tem experiência na área de Antropologia, com ênfase em Antropologia Urbana.

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Acadêmico

Formação acadêmica

Graduação em Psychology and Human Biology

1965 - 1969

Pitzer College
Orientador: Sem

Pós-doutorado

1972 - 1976

Pós-Doutorado. , University of California Berkeley.

Idiomas

Espanhol

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Bem, Escreve Bem.

Francês

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Bem, Escreve Bem.

Áreas de atuação

Grande área: Ciências Humanas / Área: Antropologia / Subárea: Antropologia Urbana.

Produções bibliográficas

LOW, SETHA M ; TAPLIN, D. ; SCHELD, S. . The Values-Based Approach for Cultural Heritage Preservation in Public Parks. The Journal of Preservation Technology , v. 45, p. 2, 2014.
LOW, SETHA ; DONOVAN, GREGORY T. ; GIESEKING, JEN . SHOESTRING DEMOCRACY: GATED CONDOMINIUMS AND MARKET-RATE COOPERATIVES IN NEW YORK. Journal of Urban Affairs , v. 34, p. 279-296, 2012.
LOW, SETHA . A multi-disciplinary framework for the study of private housing schemes: integrating anthropological, psychological and political levels of theory and analysis. GeoJournal , v. 77, p. 185-201, 2012.
LOW, SETHA M . Claiming Space for Engaged Anthropology: Spatial Inequality and Social Exclusion. American Anthropologist , v. 113, p. 389-407, 2011.
LOW, SETHA M ; MERRY, Sally E. . Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas. Current Anthropology , v. 51, p. 203-226, 2010.
LOW, SETHA M ; LAMB, Mike . Simulation, Beavers and Cultural Repatriation: The Promise of Mannahatta. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization , v. 46, p. 264-269, 2010.
LOW, SETHA M . Maintaining Whiteness: The Fear of Others and Niceness. Transforming Anthropology , v. 17, p. 87-99, 2009.
LOW, SETHA M. . Towards an anthropological theory of space and place. Semiotica (Berlin) , v. 2009, p. 21-37, 2009.
LOW, SETHA M. . Fortification of Residential Neighbourhoods and the New Emotions of Home. Housing, Theory and Society , v. 25, p. 47-65, 2008.
LOW, SETHA M. . Incorporation and Gated Communities in the Greater Metro-Los Angeles Region as a Model of Privatization of Residential Communities. Home Cultures , v. 5, p. 85-108, 2008.
LOW, SETHA M . Towards a Theory of Urban Fragmentation: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Fear, Privatization, and the State. European Journal of Geography , v. 349, p. 349, 2007.
LOW, SETHA M . The Politics of Fear: The Public Space Consequences of Splintering Urbanism. Antipode , v. 38, p. 18-24, 2006.
LOW, SETHA M. . The Erosion of Public Space and the Public Realm: paranoia, surveillance and privatization in New York City. City Society , v. 18, p. 43-49, 2006.
LOW, SETHA M . The politics of fear : strategies of exclusion in gated communities. Die Wirklichkeit der Städte , v. 16, p. 177-195, 2005.
LOW, S. M. . Battery Park City: An Ethnographic Field Study of the Community Impact of 9/11. Urban Affairs Review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) , v. 40, p. 655-682, 2005.
LOW, SETHA M. . The memorialization of September 11: Dominant and local discourses on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. American Ethnologist , v. 31, p. 326-339, 2004.
LOW, SETHA M. . Anthropological Theories of Body, Space, and. Space and Culture , v. 6, p. 9-18, 2003.
LOW, S. M. . Commentary: Social theory and archaeological ethnographies. Journal of Social Archaeology , v. 2, p. 269-275, 2002.
LOW, SETHA . Acknowledging the Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology, 2001. City Society , v. 14, p. 147-148, 2002. Society" tooltip="Citações a partir de 1996" >
LOW, SETHA M. . Lessons from Imagining the World Trade Center Site: An Examination of Public Space and Culture. Anthropology & Education Quarterly , v. 33, p. 395-405, 2002.
LOW, SETHA M. . The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear:. American Anthropologist , v. 103, p. 45-58, 2001.
LOW, SETHA M ; MCDONOGH, G. W. . Remapping the City. American Anthropologist , v. 103, p. 1-7, 2001.

Prêmios

2012

Public Space Working Group Seminar. With F. Mattioli, Center for the Humanities.

2012

Exploring Condominium Governance in Toronto and New York City. Collaboration with P.I. R. Lippert, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada.

2011

Göttingen, Germany. Public Space and Diversity Research Network. With D. Vigneswaran, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

2010

Faculty Fellowship, Center for Place, Culture and Politics.

2009

Collaborative Ventures in the Behavioral Sciences (with D. Hayden), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

2008

Engaged Anthropology. With S. Merry, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

2007

Comparison of Coops and Gated Communities, National Cooperative Bank.

2007

Moore Street Market Study, Project for Public Spaces.

2005

Coops in New York City, Research Foundation of the City University of New York.

2003

Impact of 9/11, Research Foundation of the City University of New York.

2003

Ethnographic Overview of Liberty Island, New York, National Parks Service.

2003

Ethnography of Fire Island and the William Floyd Estate, National Park Service.

2002

Impact of 9/11 on New York City Public Space, Office of Sponsored Research.

2002

Post 9/11 Community Study of Battery Park City, Russell Sage Foundation.

2002

GCI Senior Fellowship, The Getty Center.

2001

Politics of Public Space, Faculty Development Grant (with N. Smith).

2000

User Values at Jacob Riis Park, New York, National Park Service.

2000

Discourse of Fear, Research Foundation of the City University of New York.

1997

Landscapes of Fear, Research Foundation of the City University of New York.

1996

Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

1989

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship at John Carter Library.

1986

Fulbright Research Fellowship, Council for International Exchange of Scholars.

Histórico profissional

Endereço profissional

City University of New York. , 365 Fifth Avenue, The Graduate Center, 10016 - New York, - Estados Unidos, Telefone: (212) 8178725

Experiência profissional

1992 - 2004

University of Pennsylvania

Vínculo: Professor Visitante, Enquadramento Funcional: Professora Visitante

1976 - 1988

University of Pennsylvania

Vínculo: , Enquadramento Funcional: Professora Associada

1980 - 1987

University of Pennsylvania

Vínculo: Colaborador, Enquadramento Funcional: Co-diretora do Medical Anthropology Program

1980 - 1987

University of Pennsylvania

Vínculo: Colaborador, Enquadramento Funcional: Diretora Health Planning Program

2008 - Atual

The City University of New York

Vínculo: Servidor Público, Enquadramento Funcional: Professora

Outras informações:
Disciplina de Terra e Ciências-Geografia do Ambiente (Earth and Environmental Sciences-Geography no The Grauate Center, CUNY (The City University of New York

2003 - Atual

The City University of New York

Vínculo: Diretoria, Enquadramento Funcional: The Graduate Center - CUNY

Outras informações:
Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Centro de Pós-Graduação (The Graduate Center),CUNY

1995 - Atual

The City University of New York

Vínculo: Servidor Público, Enquadramento Funcional: Diretora, Public Space Research Group

Outras informações:
No Center for Human Environments, CUNY (University City University of New York)

1989 - Atual

The City University of New York

Vínculo: , Enquadramento Funcional: Professora

Outras informações:
Vage em Environmental Psychology and Anthropology no campus The Graduate Center. Disciplinas ministradas: General Theory Courses: Social Theory: Anthropological, Geographical and Critical Theory; Protests of the Body Urban Anthropology Courses: Situating the Suburbs, The City in Cross-cultural Perspective Space and Place Courses: The Ethnography of Space and Place, Locating Culture, Culture and Environment, Cultural Spaces; Social Production of the Built Environment, The Enclosure of the Commons Methods Courses: Qualitative Data Analysis, Qualitative Methods, Ethnographic Field Methods (basic and advanced), Participant Observation, Semi-Structured and Unstructured Interviewing; Alternative Field Methods Mapping, Transect Walks and Networks Latin America: The Latin American City, Latin American Ethnography, Contemporary Central America Medical Anthropology: Emotion and the Body, Protests of the Body, Anthropology of Emotion, Medical Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Health, Ecology of Health

2001 - 2004

The City University of New York

Vínculo: Colaborador, Enquadramento Funcional: Coordenadora - The Graduate Center

1994 - 1996

The City University of New York

Vínculo: Colaborador, Enquadramento Funcional: Coordenadora - The Graduate Center

2009 - Atual

The City College of New York

Vínculo: , Enquadramento Funcional: Professora Adjunta, School of Architecture

Outras informações:
Disciplinas ministradas: Courses Taught for the Graduate Program in Urban Design: Comparative Urbanism, Landscapes of Fear, Reading the City: Anthropology Looks at the City

2010 - Atual

UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, UJ, África do Sul

Vínculo: Colaborador, Enquadramento Funcional: Pesquisadora Associada

Outras informações:
Centre for Anthropological Research

2013 - Atual

Royal Institute Of Technology

Vínculo: Colaborador, Enquadramento Funcional: Pesquisadora Associada Emérita