Suzanne Frayser, Author at The Anthropology Career Readiness Network

About Suzanne Frayser (Edit profile)

I am a cultural anthropologist who loves relating the concepts and methods in anthropology to my research, writing, speeches, leadership roles, and everyday life. Our discipline enriches it all! My early career centered on teaching and cross-cultural research (with George Peter Murdock) that generated a couple of books on human sexuality (Varieties of Sexual Experience and Studies in Human Sexuality) and leadership as the President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. My later career has focused on applied research, establishing my own business, and aligning anthropological research with business objectives, including six years of writing web and press releases for astronomers as part of outreach for a Japanese observatory. I now want to share and integrate the wisdom of my diverse pursuits.

How does academic anthropology strengthen my applied work with clients in business?

My attraction to anthropology began early. Photographs in National Geographic stimulated my interest in other cultures, especially since I was growing up in a homogeneous community. My undergraduate major at William and Mary acquainted me with anthropology, and the four-field approach, learned as a graduate student at Cornell, convinced me that I could study anything through the anthropological lens. This holistic interdisciplinary perspective has enabled me to maintain my identity as an anthropologist. It has provided me with the conceptual and methodological tools to utilize in a wide variety of applied projects for Fortune 500 companies, state and federal organizations, and [...]