Setha Low

Setha Low

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

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.