Susan Mazur-Stommen:  

Life Susan Mazur-Stommen is an academic, author, researcher, teacher and consultant. She began her career working in Silicon Valley when, at age 18, she took a job Xerox as a software beta-tester. The next several years were spent ‘in the belly of the beast’ with much of that time working in marketing. At the same time she pursued a degree in Anthropology at San Jose State University, which she received (with honors) in 1995. In 1996 she left Silicon Valley to get her Master’s and Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. She completed her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside in 2002. Her book, Engines of Ideology: Urban Renewal in Rostock, Germany 1990-2000, is available from Transaction Publishers. Her writing has also appeared in the Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, Stadtgespraechen, Anthropology of Eastern Europe, Streetnotes: Eth...Expand for more