Susan Needham, Ph.D

Title: Professor of Anthropology

Department: Anthropology

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

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.