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Susan Lobo
University of Arizona
1415 East Prince Road
Tucson, AZ 85719
Phone: 520-320-7714
Fax: 520-323-9216
E-mail: SLobo333@aol.com

Dr. Susan Lobo is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was the coordinator of the Center for Latin American Studies, and at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests are in indigenous peoples worldwide, including urbanization, modernization, migration, and community development; American Indians with a focus on contemporary issues, urbanization, and social change; and current issues in Native American Studies as an academic field of study.

Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Dr. Lobo has also served as a consultant emphasizing research, advocacy, project design and evaluation, working primarily for American Indian tribes, and community-based NGOs in the United States and Central and South America. Dr. Lobo’s books include Urban Voices: the Bay Area American Indian Community, American Indians and the Urban Experience, Native American Voices: a Reader, and A House of My Own: Social Organization in the Squatter Settlements of Lima, Peru. She has also published numerous articles in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Native Peoples, American Indian Quarterly, MesoAmerica, News from Native California, and many others.

Dr. Lobo has been an outreach speaker from the University of Arizona addressing various community groups and organizations and has had many book-readings and discussions for audiences at bookstores, and at organizations such as the National Writer's Union and the National League of American Pen Women. She is interested in speaking to all audiences and representative lecture titles include:

• Urban clan mothers: the role of indigenous women in cities
• Contemporary issues in indigenous peoples urban mobility patterns, demographics, cultural revitalization, and community building
• New perspectives and innovative trends in community development in rural and urban native communities
• Current issues in the academic field of American Indian Studies in the United States and their reflection on broader indigenous studies worldwide
• Native peoples and environmental issues: the southwest and California