Susan H. Lees is a cultural anthropologist and human ecologist, and the former editor-in-chief of Human Ecology and American Anthropologist.[1] She received her PhD from the University of Michigan and is professor emeritus of cultural anthropology, human ecology, economic anthropology, and religion at City University of New York.[2][3] Susan has performed field research around the world in places such as Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and Israel on historical changes to irrigation in agriculture.[4] Additionally, her research has been published throughout her career in University Press of America, Greenwood Press, Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd., University of North Carolina Press, and more.[5]
Susan H. Lees | |
|---|---|
| Title | Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD, University of Michigan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropologist |
| Sub-discipline | Cultural anthropology, Human ecology |
| Institutions | City University of New York |
Research edit
Lees' work focuses mainly on ecological anthropology and economic anthropology.[6] This research is about how people respond to a climate or environmentally based crisis like climate change, developing fishing practices, and gentrification.[7] Her early work was largely centered around farming communities and how irrigation in agriculture can impact society and facilitate the emergence of conflict and relationships between groups.[8][9][10] More recently, her research has explored the impact of changes in social, political, economic, and environmental developments on rural fishing communities in Maine,[11] particularly home based crab fishing in Deer Isle, Maine and how this fishing is being threatened by regulations.[12] This research looks at things like gentrification and education, as well as labor control and governmental power.[13]
Throughout the last 35 years, Lee has also traveled throughout places in South America, Asia, and North America performing field research on responses to the environment.[14]
In 1976, Lee became editor of Human Ecology, following the retirement of its founder Andrew P. Vayda. She invited Daniel Bates to co-edit the journal with her.[15]
In 2009, Lees became the editor of American Anthropologist along with Fran Mascia-Lees.[16]
Works edit
- ed. Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. AltaMira Press. 2009.[17]
- The Political Ecology of the Water Crisis In Israel. University Press of America. 1999.
- Case Studies in Human Ecology. Plenum Press. 1998.[18][19]
- Sociopolitical Aspects of Canal Irrigation in the Valley of Oaxaca. University of Michigan Press. 1973.[20]
References edit
- ^ Bates, Daniel G. (2012-02-01). "On Forty Years: Remarks from the Editor". Human Ecology. 40 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s10745-012-9461-z. ISSN 1572-9915. S2CID 254540987.
- ^ "Susan Lees - Anthropology PhD Program". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "Susan Lees". guide.americananthro.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "Susan Lees - Anthropology PhD Program". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "Susan Lees - Anthropology PhD Program". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "Susan Lees - Anthropology PhD Program". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "Susan Lees - Anthropology PhD Program". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ Lees, Susan H. (September 1986). "Coping with Bureaucracy: Survival Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture". American Anthropologist. 88 (3): 610–622. doi:10.1525/aa.1986.88.3.02a00050. ISSN 0002-7294.
- ^ Lees, Susan H. (1994-12-01). "Irrigation and society". Journal of Archaeological Research. 2 (4): 361–378. doi:10.1007/BF02231484. ISSN 1573-7756. S2CID 144609689.
- ^ Lees, Susan H. (June 1989). "On Irrigation and the Conflict Myth". Current Anthropology. 30 (3): 343–344. doi:10.1086/203750. ISSN 0011-3204. S2CID 143769360.
- ^ Lees, Susan H. (1996). "Review of Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions". Human Ecology. 24 (1): 137–141. doi:10.1007/BF02167965. ISSN 0300-7839. JSTOR 4603189. S2CID 189873758.
- ^ Lees, Susan H.; Orr, Emily (March 2003). "Uncle Sam Versus the Peekytoe Crab: Post Mortem on a Rural Protest". Culture & Agriculture. 25 (1): 26–34. doi:10.1525/cag.2003.25.1.26. ISSN 1048-4876.
- ^ "Susan Lees - Anthropology PhD Program". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "Susan Lees - Anthropology PhD Program". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ Bates, Daniel G. (2012-02-01). "On Forty Years: Remarks from the Editor". Human Ecology. 40 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s10745-012-9461-z. ISSN 1572-9915. S2CID 254540987.
- ^ "Meet the Next AA Editors: Fran Mascia-Lees and Susan Lees". Anthropology News. 42 (2): 11. February 2001. doi:10.1111/an.2001.42.2.11.
- ^ Ocampo-Raeder, V. Constanza (2010). "Review of Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology". Human Ecology. 38 (3): 467–469. doi:10.1007/s10745-010-9315-5. ISSN 0300-7839. JSTOR 40603037. S2CID 155530140.
- ^ Little, Peter D. (1998). "Review of Case Studies in Human Ecology". Human Ecology. 26 (2): 341–343. doi:10.1023/A:1018727125610. ISSN 0300-7839. JSTOR 4603283. S2CID 189867021.
- ^ Schwerin, Karl H. (April 1998). "Case Studies in Human Ecology . Daniel G. Bates , Susan H. Lees". Journal of Anthropological Research. 54 (1): 106–109. doi:10.1086/jar.54.1.3631682. ISSN 0091-7710.
- ^ Downing, Theodore (April 1977). "Sociopolitical Aspects of Canal Irrigation in the Valley of Oaxaca. Susan H. Lees. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Number 6, Ann Arbor, 1973, xi + 143 pp., illus. $6.00". American Antiquity. 42 (2): 304–307. doi:10.2307/279004. ISSN 0002-7316. JSTOR 279004. S2CID 164298095.
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