Susan Strasser
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- Email: strasser@udel.edu
- Phone: (302) 831-0802
- Office: 229 John Munroe Hall
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Susan Strasser is a historian of American consumer culture and is Senior Resident Scholar at the Hagley Museum and Library’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society. She did her undergraduate work at Reed College (1969) and received her M.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) from SUNY at Stony Brook. Her books include Never Done: A History of American Housework (1982), Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (1989), Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century (1998), Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (1999), and Commodifying Everything: Relationships of the Market (2003). She is currently working on a study of the culture and commerce of medicinal herbs.