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Tricia Wachtendorf, Ph.D.
Disaster
Research Center
Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice
University
of Delaware |
Tricia
Wachtendorf is an assistant professor
of sociology at the University
of
Delaware and a core faculty member
at
the Disaster Research Center - the
world's
oldest research center devoted to the social science aspects of
disasters.
Her
research over the past decade has focused on such topics as
transnational
disaster
coordination, community based approaches to disaster
mitigation and
partnership
building, and multi-organizational responses to natural and
terrorist-
induced
disasters. In 2001, Dr. Wachtendorf led DRC's two
month quick-response
research
at key operation facilities in New York City following the
World Trade
Center
disaster and subsequently conducted interviews with key decision
makers
involved
with the response effort. Her
publications from this study have focused on
creativity,
improvisation, convergence, and resilience. Dr.
Wachtendorf also
authored
Improvising 9/11: Organizational Improvisation Following
the
Attacks
on the World Trade Center in
which she examines the extent to
which
preplanning facilitated the response and the extent to which the
response
demanded organizaitional creativity, adaptation, and reproductive
improvisation
strategies to cope with emergent needs. She and her colleague
Dr. James Kendra
have
co-authored
several articles
on the response efforts and recently received
funding
from the National Science
Foundation and the University of Delaware
Research Foundation
to study the
waterborne evacuation of Lower Manhattan on 9/11.
Please click
here
for more research activities
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WTC gallery
Links
DRC homepage
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Course Links: Introduction to Sociology 201
Social
Vulnerability in Disasters and Development
Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry
467
Qualitative Research
(Graduate
Seminar)
Disasters & Society 325
Handouts
for 201
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Handouts will be removed shortly after each lecture and new handouts
will be posted regularly.
Background
photo 'Ground Zero' copyright 2001 Kendra and Wachtendorf
Updated Fall, 2007