Susan Rodgers is Professor Emerita, Anthropology and Distinguished Professor Emerita, Ethics and Society, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. Her 1978 Ph.D. in anthropology is from the University of Chicago and among her publications are Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines (Prestel, 1985); Gold Cloths of Sumatra: From Ceremony to Commodity (with Anne Summerfield and John Summerfield, 2007 , KITLV Press and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Holy Cross), and Stunned by Beauty: Appreciating Ritual Textiles of Sarawak and West Kalimantan (2019, iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Holy Cross). Beyond art and critical museum studies she also studies Sumaran literatures and literacies.
Rodgers is the Primary Investigator for our two grants and the main author of the texts for this digital archive. When a student contributed a great deal to an entry we note that, by using the format, S. Rodgers and [student]. In one case, the student was the sole author. Many of the entries in the Artisans section rely on our findings and descriptions as set out in Susan Rodgers and Martina Umunna, 2017, Path to Empowerment: Refugee Artisans of Worcester. (36 pages, Holy Cross: Center for Liberal Arts in the World).