Susanna Rosenbaum is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Director of the MA in the Study of the Americas. Her research and teaching center immigration, race, and citizenship; gendered labor and neoliberalism; care work; and the Americas. Her book Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles (Duke University Press 2017) examines how Mexican and Central American domestic workers and their primarily white employers seek to achieve the American Dream. Her current scholarship focuses on multi-level marketing among immigrant women, emphasizing self-care as another form of care work.

PhD, New York University

BA, Wesleyan University

Rosenbaum, Susanna and Ruti Talmor. 2024. Towards and Anthropology of Self-Care. Annual Review of Anthropology 53: 199-214.

Rosenbaum, Susanna and Ruti Talmor. 2022. Self-Care. Feminist Anthropology 3(2): 362-372.

Rosenbaum, Susanna. 2021. "Women's Work": How the Devaluation of Care Work Hurts Women and the Economy" Ms. Magazine, Feb. 9.

Rosenbaum, Susanna and Danielle Zach, editors. 2020. España, Norteamérica, y tiempos de crisis. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata.

Rosenbaum, Susanna. 2017. Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles. Durham: Duke University Press.

Rosenbaum, Susanna. 2016. 'Todos Sacrifican': Immigrant Organizing and the Meanings of (Domestic) Work. Working USA: The Journal of Labour and Society. 19(2): 187-206.

Rosenbaum, Susanna. 2014. Domestic Disturbances: Immigrant Workers, Middle-Class Employers, and the American Dream in Los Angeles. In When Care Work Goes Global: Learning the Social Relations of Domestic Work, Mary Romero, Valerie Preston, Wenona Giles eds. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Books.