Duane Gill
Duane A. Gill is professor and head of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. He is part of a research team that has been investigating human impacts of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Alaska through a series of longitudinal studies funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Earthwatch Center for Field Studies, and the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council. He was also part of a research team that conducted studies of community impacts of the 2004 Selendang Ayu shipwreck and oil spill in the Aleutian Islands the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill in San Francisco Bay. Most recently, he completed an NSF-funded project investigating ways to improve tsunami preparedness and warning effectiveness among individuals and communities in seven coastal U.S. states.
Gill has collaborated on several studies of impacts of Hurricane Katrina. These include a needs assessment of Mississippi State University students and a survey of displaced students from three New Orleans universities. He also organized and led a Katrina Summit that brought together national and local disaster scholars to discuss research needs and approaches to the disaster. He served as guest editor for special Katrina-related issues of Sociological Spectrum and the Journal of Public Management and Social Policy.
Gill is past president of the Mid-South Sociological Association and the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association. He has served on the Minerals Management Service Outer Continental Shelf Scientific Committee and the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council’s Socioeconomic Panel. Gill is a Fulbright Scholar, having spent the 1998-99 academic year at the University of Bahrain.