Bio
Dr. Benigno E. Aguirre is a Professor in the Department
of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware
and a faculty member of the Disaster Research Center. He
obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology at Ohio State University.
He is past president of the International Research Committee
of Disaster. He has served in committees of the National
Science Foundation and has received funding from NSF.
He is currently working on three research
projects focusing on the urban search and rescue taskforce
system of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, building
simulation models of emergency evacuation with computer
scientists and traffic engineers at the University of Rhode
Island, and building simulation models of building collapse
and behavior of victims with engineers at the University
of Michigan.
Dr. Aguirre has published in the areas
of disasters, ethnic and minority populations, and collective
behavior and social change. Some of his recent publications
include:“The Sociology of Collective Behavior.”
In Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck, editors, The Handbook
of 21st Century Sociology, 2005, Berkeley: Sage; with Russell
R. Dynes, James Kendra, Rory Connell, “Institutional
Resilience and Disaster Planning for New Hazards: Insights
from Hospitals.” Journal of Homeland Security and
Emergency Management, 2005, 2; “Emergency Evacuations,
Panic, and Social Psychology.” Psychiatry, 2005, 68
(2): 121-129’ with Gabriel Santos, “A Critical
Review of Emergency Evacuation Simulation Models.”
Pp. 27-52 in Richard D. Peacock and Erica D. Kuligowski,
editors. Workshop on Building Occupant Movement During Fire
Emergencies,June10-11th,2004.(online at
http://fire.nist.gov/CDPUBS/NISTSP_1032/index.html
; “Homeland Security Warnings: Lessons Learned and
Unlearned.” International Journal of Mass Emergencies
and Disasters, 2004, 22, 2, 103-115; “Los Desastres
en Latinoamérica: Vulnerabilidad y Resistencia.”
Revista Mexicana de Sociologia, 2004, 66, 3, 485-510.
