Susan Saegert
| Susan Saegert | |
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| Born |
Susan Camille Saegert 12 October 1946 Guadalupe, Texas |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Website | Official website |
| Institutions | City University of New York, Graduate Center |
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Main interests
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Environmental psychology |
Susan Camille Saegert (born 12 October 1946), Guadalupe, Texas is Professor of Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She was previously Professor of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University (Peabody College) in Nashville, TN.
Prior to her current appointment in 2008, Dr. Saegert was Director of the Center for Human Environments (CHE) and Professor of Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center where she has worked since receiving her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1974. She was also the first director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Susan Camille Saegert was born on 12 October 1946, she is the daughter of Albert Saegert and Patricia Camille McIntyre.
Saegert gained her degree from the University of Texas in 1968, and her doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1974.
Her early research focused on crowding and environmental stressors. She then began to study the relationship between housing and human development and well being, as well as women and environments. These interests involved her with a team of architects, planners and housing finance experts in developing a plan for Downtown Denver that increased residential uses and amenities, which is evidenced in the cityscape of Denver today.
Her research in inner city communities led her to focus less on how housing conditions can affect residents and more on how communities can affect housing conditions. With colleagues at CHE in the Housing Environments Research Group (HERG), she and Gary Winkel have worked in partnership with community organizations and coalitions to understand how to successfully improve distressed housing and neighborhoods in New York City. This work has also resulted in a book on social capital co-edited with two political scientists: S. Saegert, J.P. Thompson, & M. R. Warren (Eds) Social capital and poor communities. New York: Russell Sage, 2001.
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