Susan Needham, Ph.D

Title: Professor of Anthropology

Department: Anthropology

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

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.”