My Biography
Dr. Susanna Hoffman (she/her) (BA in Anthropology, 1963 University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D in Anthropology, 1970 University of California, Berkeley) is an expert on the anthropology of risk and disaster, Greece, Indo-European Culture, and Food. She has worked in and continues to work in Greece since 1966. Dr. Hoffman has also worked at disaster sites around the world, including India, China, Japan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Greece and more. Dr. Hoffman is an Author/editor of fourteen books, two ethnographic films, over forty articles/chapters, including: The Angry Earth (1, 2 and 3), Disaster Upon Disaster, Catastrophe and Culture, Cooling Down, and the forthcoming Nostalgia, Ecalgia, Topalgia: The Deep Cultural Complexities Behind the Persistent Problematic of Displacement and Resettlement on pandemics and the study of Isolation, and the film Kypseli. Chapters in A Collection of Creative Anthropologies, The Routledge Handbook of the Environment, Encyclopedia of Modern Greece, and The Gendered Terrain of Disaster, among others. She founded the Risk and Disaster Group for the SFAA Risk and Disaster Commission, IUAES. Dr. Hoffman was the first recipient of the Aegean Initiative Fulbright and co-wrote the UN Statement on Women and Disaster. Dr. Hoffman attended her first Annual Meeting in San Francisco in 1963.