Experts

Jennifer Trivedi

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Research explores disaster vulnerability, response, recovery, resilience and decision-making within larger historical and cultural contexts, including the influence of inequality and power structures.
Can comment on people’s decision-making in disaster response and recovery and larger contexts that may influence those decisions.
Has conducted both long-term ethnographic fieldwork and rapid response fieldwork to disasters like flooding and hurricanes in the American Southeast and the false-missile alert in Hawaii.

Hurricane Delta aims for 'devil's playground'

E&E News

Nearly a third of Americans worry about having their work hours cut or losing their jobs

Marketplace

Hurricane Katrina hit Biloxi 15 years ago. Here’s what other coastal cities can learn from its recovery

Fast Company

A.R. Siders

Disaster Research Center

Research focuses on climate change adaptation policies with an emphasis on managed retreat (relocation of people and assets away from risk) and environmental justice.
Sal Mistry

Management

Studies teams and leadership within organizations in order to understand the factors that unite individuals, teams and leaders in organizations or break them apart.
Jennifer Horney

Epidemiology

Research focuses on the impacts of natural disasters on public health, as well as linkages between disaster planning and the actions communities and individuals take to prepare, respond and recover.
David Redlawsk

Political Science

Political psychologist and expert on voter behavior and emotion, focusing on how voters process information to make their decisions.
Allison Karpyn

Education and Social Policy

Research interests include obesity, food policy, community nutrition, as well as the value and limitations of supermarkets and corner stores.
Tiffany Barber

Africana Studies

Examines representations of Blackness and womanhood in pop culture, the art world and the media.