Susan F. Hirsch is a legal anthropologist whose work has specialized in the study of legal language. She is a professor of conflict resolution and anthropology at George Mason University, where she holds the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Chair in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.[1]
Hirsch is a graduate of Yale University, and has a PhD in anthropology from Duke University.[1] She has served as editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review[2] and as president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.[3]
Books edit
Hirsch's first book, Pronouncing and Persevering, focused on men's and women's language in coastal Kenyan courts. She demonstrated how women's language in court was influencing social change there, because the courts allowed prototypical women's stories to be heard in a new way. She uses detailed language analysis to show this, drawing on linguistic anthropology.[4]
Her second book In Moment of Greatest Calamity, uses linguistic anthropological analysis but also first-person experience to describe her experience as the widow of a victim of 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania—and as a participant and observer of the subsequent trial of the suspected bombers.[5] It won the 2007 Herbert Jacobs Book Prize of the Law & Society Association.[6]
She is also the coauthor, with E. Franklin Dukes, of Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia.[7]
References edit
- ^ a b "Susan F. Hirsch". Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
- ^ Hirsch, Susan-Eve; Coutin, Susan (1999). "From The Editors". PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 22 (2): vii–viii. doi:10.1525/pol.1999.22.2.vii.
- ^ "Election Results". American Anthropological Association. 2007. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
- ^ Susan F. Hirsch (1998). Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. University of Chicago Press. Reviews:
- John R. Bowen, "Law and Social Norms in the Comparative Study of Islam", American Anthropologist, JSTOR 681843
- Allan Christelow, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, JSTOR 1160825
- Barbara M. Cooper, "Swahili-Speaking Women in Court", The Journal of African History, JSTOR 183649
- Anne Griffiths, "Remaking Law: Gender, Ethnography, and Legal Discourse", Law & Society Review, JSTOR 3185411
- Anne Hellum, "Human Rights and Gender Relations in Postcolonial Africa: Options and Limits for the Subjects of Legal Pluralism", Law & Social Inquiry, JSTOR 828993
- Katherine E. Hoffman, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, JSTOR 4169039
- Joel Kuipers, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, JSTOR 24510876
- Beverly B. Mack, African Studies Review, JSTOR 525024
- William P. Murphy, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, JSTOR 3134502
- David Samuels, Discourse & Society, JSTOR 42888371
- Beverly Stoeltje, American Ethnologist, JSTOR 647322
- Joan Vincent, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, JSTOR 220471
- ^ Susan F. Hirsch (2006). In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice. Princeton University Press. Reviews:
- ^ "Awards". Law & Society Association. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
- ^ Susan F. Hirsch and E. Franklin Dukes (2014). Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict. Ohio University Press. Reviews: