Susan Needham, Ph.D

Title: Professor of Anthropology

Department: Anthropology

Office: SBS C-332
Phone Extension: x3485
Email Username: sneedham

Show All Publications Selected Publications Grants Awarded

Publications

2008 Cambodians in Long Beach. Arcadia Publishing
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2008 Cambodian Americans. In the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society . Richard Schaefer, ed. Sage Publications.
2007 Cambodians in Long Beach, California: The Making of a Community. Co-authored with Karen Quintiliani, Assistant professor, anthropology, CSU, Long Beach. IN The Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies , 5(1):29-53.
2004 Phnom Penh by the Sea: A History of Cambodians in Long Beach. IN The Southlander a publication of the “Re-Thinking Greater Long Beach” conference series. Pages 96-111.
2003 “This is Active Learning:” Theories of Language, Learning, and Social Relations in the Transmission of Khmer Literacy. IN Anthropology & Education Quarterly 33(1):27-49.
2001 “How can you be Cambodian if you don't speak Khmer?” Language, Literacy, and Education in a Cambodian “Rhetoric of Distinction.” IN Negotiating Transnationalism: Selected Papers on Refugees and Immigrants , Volume IX, 2001. This is a peer review edited volume of the Committee on Refugee and Immigrant Issues, a sub-committee of the American Anthropological Association
1994 Khmer Literacy Learning and Instruction in the Cambodian Community of Long Beach, California. IN Papers from the Second Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society , 1992. Karen L. Adams and Thomas John Hudak, eds. Pp. 427-440. Tempe: Arizona State University.

Selected Publications

(2006) Spinning the Golden Thread: Indian Tales in the Art of Angkor. Televised Presentation for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. November 1, 2006. CSU, Dominguez Hills.
(2006) “It’s not the date!” Contested Meanings in the Construction of a Cambodian New Year Parade. Co-authored with Karen Quintiliani, anthropology, CSU, Long Beach. Presented at the 77th Annual Conference of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, April 29, 2006.
(2005) Reports from the Edge: Khmer-American College Students’ Narratives of Experience. Presented 104th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association, December 3, Washington, DC
(2004) Socialization in a Cambodian Dance Class. Co-authored paper with Beatriz Rodriguez and Judy Andes, CSUDH students. Presented at the Southwestern Anthropological Association annual meeting, April 15, San Jose, CA.
(2003) What does it mean to be Khmer?: Cambodian American Identity in the 1990s. Poster Session presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association, November, Chicago, IL.
(2003) Teaching Critical Literacy in an Undergraduate Anthropology Program. Co-authored with Janine Gasco, Jerry Moore, and Sandra Orellana. Poster Session presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association, November, Chicago, IL.
(2001) Literacy and Education in Cambodian History. Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association, November, Washington, D.C.
(2001) Bridging Two Worlds: The Role of Buddhist Monks in Healing Ceremonies among Cambodians in Long Beach. Co-authored with Honorable Kong Chhean, Zohara Kaye (CSULA), and Mary Foster (CSUDH). Presented at the 72nd Annual Conference of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, April, San Diego.
(2000) Literate and Religious Identities in a Cambodian Rhetoric of Distinction. Presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, San Francisco.
(2000) A Brief History of the Cambodian Community of Long Beach California. Presented at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, October 7, Long Beach, California.

Grants Awarded

Spring 2004 Sally Casanova Memorial RSCAAP Summer Stipend, 2004 . To study the Impact of Community Based Learning on CSUDH Students and the Cambodian and Vietnamese Communities of Greater Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Awarded $4,500.
Fall 2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award , to write the history of the Cambodian Community of Long Beach.
Spring 2003 Sally Casanova Memorial RSCAAP Summer Stipend, 2003 . For historical research with Khmer language newspapers published in Long Beach, California since 1984.
Spring 2002 Sally Casanova Memorial RSCAAP Summer Stipend, 2002 . To organize and analyze materials for the history of the Cambodian Community of Long Beach, California.
Fall 2001 California Council for the Humanities for honoraria for traditional artisans to demonstrate their lore and art at the “California Folklife Festival,” co-sponsored by the Multicultural Center of CSUDH.
Fall 2001 Sally Casanova Memorial RSCAAP Mini-Grant, Spring 2002 to transcribe and translate data for The history of the Cambodian Community in Long Beach, California.
Fall 2000 California Council for the Humanities for honorarium for traditional artisans to demonstrate their lore and art at “Sharing Traditions of California Folklife,” co-sponsored by the Multicultural Center of CSUDH.
Spring 2000 Sally Casanova Memorial RSCAAP Summer Stipend, 2000. For travel to Cambodia to conduct a pilot study on the “Social Organization of Educational Practices in Cambodia.”

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