IU School of Liberal Arts

Susan Brin Hyatt

Campus Address: CA 413E
Phone: (317)278-4548
Fax: 278-5220
Email: suhyatt@iupui.edu
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Appointments

Associate Professor of Anthropology; Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology (Bloomington);Graduate Program Director, MA in Applied Anthropology

Education

B.A. Grinnell College 1976
M.A. University of Michigan 1980
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts-Amherst 1996

Academic Interests

Urban anthropology, service learning and ethnographic methods, social movements, anthropology of policy, anthropology of contemporary Europe and North America.

Teaching

Field Work in Ethnography (ANTH E-404); Urban Anthropology (ANTH E-380); Anthropological Thought (ANTH A-360)

Awards

Grinnell College Alumni Award (2001),
Distinguished Teaching Award (2003),
College of Liberal Arts, Temple University. Boyer Scholar, 2006-07 Trustees Teaching Award, 2008, School of Liberal Arts Indiana Campus Compact Brian Douglas Hiltunen Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Scholarship of Engagement, 2010

Publications

“Universities and Local Urban Economic Development,” Companion to Organizational Anthropology, edited by Douglas Caulkins and Ann Jordan, Editors., Blackwell Publishing, 2012. “Universities and Neoliberal Models of Urban Development: Using Ethnographic Fieldwork to Understand the ‘Death and Rebirth of North Central Philadelphia, ’” Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, forthcoming special issue, “Learning Under Neoliberalism,” co-edited by Susan Hyatt and Boone Shear, forthcoming Winter 2011. “What was neoliberalism and what comes next? The Transformation of Citizenship in the Law-and-Order State,” in Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Anatomy of Contemporary Power, edited by Peró, Davide, Cris Shore, Susan Wright. Berghahn Press, In Press. “Paradoxes of ‘Progressive’ Government: Urban Policy Under New Labour and the Decline of Grassroots Activism,” Jackie Haq and Susan B. Hyatt, Urban Anthropology, 37(2): 211-279, Summer 2008.

Service

Grant Reviewer, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2010-2012. Grant Reviewer, Graduate Fellowships, Geography, Economics and Public Policy Panel, National Science Foundation, February 2005, 2009, Washington DC. External Program Reviewer, “Deviant Behavior and Social Control,” John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, February 2009. Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, National Steering Committee Member, 2008- present

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