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Russell Dynes
Research ProfessorFounding Director, Disaster Research Center (DRC)
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Background and Experience:
Ph.D., Ohio State UniversityM.A., University of Tennessee
B.A., University of Tennessee
Dr. Dynes has served as chair of the Department of Sociology at the
Ohio State University and the University of Delaware. From 1977-82,
he was Executive Officer, American Sociological Association in Washington,
DC. From 1976-79, he chaired the Committee on International Disaster
Assistance, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council and
in 1979, he served as head of the Task Force on Emergency Preparedness
and Response for the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile
Island. From 1986-90, he served as President, Research Committee
on Disasters, International Sociological Association. He has been
a Fulbright lecturer in Egypt, India and Thailand, as well as a Visiting
Professor at University College, Cardiff.
Publications:
Dr. Dynes is the author or editor of ten books, including Organized Behavior in Disaster, Sociology of Disaster and Disasters, Collective Behavior and Social Organization and well over 100 articles, many on disaster related topics. A few of his recent works include:-
Seismic Waves in
Intellectual Currents: The Uses of the Lisbon Earthquake in 18thCentury
European Thought. Russell R. Dynes, 1998.
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Dealing With Disaster
in the 21st Century. Russell R. Dynes, 1998
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Comments on Drabek
and Other Encyclopediasts. Russell R. Dynes, 1998.
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Noah and Disaster
Planning: The Cultural Significance of The Flood Story.
Russell R. Dynes, 1998.
- Financial Crises in the Context of Disaster Theory: Recent U.S. Case Studies. Patrick Dynes and Russell Dynes, 1997.