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 | CUNY Graduate Center |
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 Graduate Center of the 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. [2] 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. [2]
Lees' work focuses mainly on ecological anthropology and economic anthropology. [2] This research is about how people respond to a climate or environmentally based crisis like climate change,developing fishing practices,and gentrification. [2] 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. [4] [5] [6] More recently,her research has explored the impact of changes in social,political,economic,and environmental developments on rural fishing communities in Maine, [7] particularly home based crab fishing in Deer Isle,Maine and how this fishing is being threatened by regulations. [8] This research looks at things like gentrification and education,as well as labor control and governmental power. [2]
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. [2]
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. [9]
In 2009,Lees became the editor of American Anthropologist along with Fran Mascia-Lees. [10]