BIO

Risa Palm
Risa Palm is executive vice chancellor and provost at Louisiana State University where she is also a professor of geography. She has previously been dean of Arts and Sciences at the Universities of Oregon and North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and dean of the Graduate School and Associate Vice Chancellor for research at the University of Colorado (Boulder). She is a past president of the Association of American Geographers and the Consortium of Social Science Associations. Her research has centered on urban geography and earthquake hazard response.