Susan Hirsch Explained
Susan F. Hirsch is a legal anthropologist whose work has specialized in the study of legal language. She is a professor of conflict resolution and anthropology at George Mason University, where she holds the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Chair in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.[1]
Hirsch is a graduate of Yale University, and has a PhD in anthropology from Duke University.[1] She has served as editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review[2] and as president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.[3]
Books
Hirsch's first book, Pronouncing and Persevering, focused on men's and women's language in coastal Kenyan courts. She demonstrated how women's language in court was influencing social change there, because the courts allowed prototypical women's stories to be heard in a new way. She uses detailed language analysis to show this, drawing on linguistic anthropology.[4]
Her second book In Moment of Greatest Calamity, uses linguistic anthropological analysis but also first-person experience to describe her experience as the widow of a victim of 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania—and as a participant and observer of the subsequent trial of the suspected bombers.[5] It won the 2007 Herbert Jacobs Book Prize of the Law & Society Association.[6]
She is also the coauthor, with E. Franklin Dukes, of Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia.[7]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Susan F. Hirsch. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. 2023-11-04.
- Hirsch . Susan-Eve . Coutin . Susan . 1999 . From The Editors . PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review . 22 . 2 . vii–viii . 10.1525/pol.1999.22.2.vii .
- Web site: Election Results . American Anthropological Association . 2007 . 2014-08-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140808045414/http://www.aaanet.org/press/an/0907/election-results.html . 2014-08-08 .
- Susan F. Hirsch (1998). Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. University of Chicago Press. Reviews:
- John R. Bowen, "Law and Social Norms in the Comparative Study of Islam", American Anthropologist,
- Allan Christelow, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute,
- Barbara M. Cooper, "Swahili-Speaking Women in Court", The Journal of African History,
- Anne Griffiths, "Remaking Law: Gender, Ethnography, and Legal Discourse", Law & Society Review,
- Anne Hellum, "Human Rights and Gender Relations in Postcolonial Africa: Options and Limits for the Subjects of Legal Pluralism", Law & Social Inquiry,
- Katherine E. Hoffman, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology,
- Joel Kuipers, Political and Legal Anthropology Review,
- Beverly B. Mack, African Studies Review,
- William P. Murphy, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,
- David Samuels, Discourse & Society,
- Beverly Stoeltje, American Ethnologist,
- Joan Vincent, The International Journal of African Historical Studies,
- Susan F. Hirsch (2006). In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice. Princeton University Press. Reviews:
- Claudia Fonseca, Law & Society Review,
- Joseph Margulies, Political and Legal Anthropology Review,
- Web site: Awards. Law & Society Association. 2023-11-04.
- Susan F. Hirsch and E. Franklin Dukes (2014). Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict. Ohio University Press. Reviews:
