Utah State University
Department of SSW&A
0730 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-0730
Tel. 435-797-1230
Fax 435-797-1240
ann.johns@usu.edu

department of
Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology

Old Main 240A
(435) 797-1287
susan.dawson@usu.edu

Dr. Susan Dawson is a professor of social work who has been at USU since 1988. She teaches courses in the area of public social policy, with her primary research interest in occupational and environmental health. For more than fifteen years she has studied the psychosocial impacts of uranium mining and milling on the people of the Colorado Plateau. She has worked extensively with Navajo/Diné uranium workers and their families and other American Indian peoples, including the Acoma, Hopi, and Laguna. In addition, Dr. Dawson's research has impacted the social policy arena at the legislative level, involving the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) of 1990 and the Amendments of 2000. At present, she is studying network structures that relate to rapid energy development in the Southwest.

Vita for Dr. Dawson