Claudia Strauss

Author of Making Sense of Public Opinion: American Discourses About Immigration and Social Programs (Cambridge, 2012) and What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic (Cornell, 2024). Co-author (with Naomi Quinn) of A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning (Cambridge, 1997), along with numerous articles and two co-edited volumes. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology (2025). Endowed chair: Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology. FMI, see https://www.claudiastrauss.org/ .