Dr Setha Low is Professor of Anthropology, Environmental Psychology, Geography and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (USA). Recent books include: Politics of Public Space; Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity, On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture and Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. Dr. Low lectures internationally on public space, social justice and diversity. She has been awarded a Getty Fellowship, an NEH fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Fellowship, and a Guggenheim for her ethnographic research on public space in Latin America and the United States. She was president of the American Anthropological Association from 2007 to 2009.
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