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Setha M. Low (born March 14, 1948) is an American anthropologist. She is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Personal life and education
Low grew up in Los Angeles and currently resides in Brooklyn. She received a B.A. in Psychology from Pitzer College, Claremont, California in 1969 and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1971 and 1976.

Academic career
is a former president of the American Anthropological Association, a professor Low also served as a Conservation Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute.

University of Pennsylvania (1976–1988)

Assistant and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, City and Regional Planning, and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

1976-1988 Associate Professor and Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, City Planning, and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

The Graduate Center (1989-present) 1989-present Professor, Environmental Psychology and Anthropology, The Graduate Center

Selected Publications
Her most recent research includes an ethnography of residents in gated communities in San Antonio, Texas and on Long Island and a study of urban parks with case studies including New York City's Prospect Park, Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, and Jacob Riis Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area. More broadly Low's research includes work on the anthropology of space and place, medical anthropology, urban anthropology, historic preservation, landscapes of fear, security/insecurity, and gating in Latin America, the United States, and the cities of Western Europe.

Books

 * (edited with J. Gieseking, W. Mangold, C. Katz, and S. Saegert.)
 * (edited with N. Smith)
 * (with D.Taplin and S. Scheld)
 * (edited with D. Lawrence-Zuñiga)
 * (with F.Johnston)
 * (edited with I.Altman)
 * (edited with D.Davis)
 * (edited with E.Chambers)
 * (edited with I.Altman)
 * (edited with D.Davis)
 * (edited with E.Chambers)

Academic Articles
Setha Low has published more than eighty? academic articles


 * 1996 "Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space," American Ethnologist 23(4): 861–879.
 * 1995 "Indigenous Architectural Representations: Mesoamerican and Caribbean Foundations of the Spanish American Plaza," American Anthropologist 97(4): 748–762.

Other publications
Setha Low has published a number of chapters in books, technical reports, book reviews, and ...