Susanna Donaldson
Background:
Susie is student of cultural anthropolgy. She received her B.A. in Anthropology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. From there she moved to East Tennessee and tutored writing for two years while co-directing a rural outreach organization on the side. In 2006 she came to the University of Iowa. Susie completed her Master’s degree at the University of Iowa by doing research on the tradition of tobacco work and the changing organization of labor among East Tennessee burley tobacco growers. She will continue to work with burley tobacco growers for her PhD, but will turn her focus to the use of migrant labor in tobacco agriculture and the relations between growers and the migrants they hire. Generally, Susie is interested in the anthropological study of agriculture, especially agriculture in the United States. She is interested in agricultural work, identity, and rural America.
