Kate Creahan. Professor Kate Crehan joined the College of Staten Island (CSI) Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work in 1998. From 1998 to 2007, she served as coordinator of the CSI Women's Studies Program.
She is currently Professor Emeritus at CSI and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and is also a member of the Center's Women's Studies Certificate Program.
Her areas of interest include gender, political economy, the politics of aesthetics, and the writings of Antonio Gramsci. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia and Great Britain.
In addition to her numerous articles and chapters in different books she has also published:
The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia (University of California Press, 1997)
Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology (University of California Press and Pluto Press, 2002); Community Art: An Anthropological Perspective (Berg, 2011) (Trad. Cast. Gramsci, culture and anthropology, Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2004).