Setha Low

CUNY, Graduate Center | Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Environmental Psychology, Geography and Women’s Studies Director, Public Space Research GroupMember since 1970

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My Biography

Setha Low (PhD, UC Berkeley) is an expert in cultural anthropology. Dr. Low has conducted fieldwork on the Spanish-American plaza in Costa Rica; ethnography of gated communities in US and Mexico; ethnography of condos and coops in NYC; ethnographies of cultural diversity in urban US parks; medical systems in Costa Rica; and public space and social justice (comparative study, global). Dr. Low’s first AAA annual meeting was in 1970.

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