Hill is an associate professor of geography in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching activities focus on environmental hazards and specifically on the impacts of catastrophic events on our society and environment. She is also interested in what makes people and places vulnerable to hazards, effectively communicating that with decision makers and the public, and how community resilience can be established and sustained.

Hill earned her doctoral degree in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina in 2002, and is a 2005-2006 University of Memphis Early Career Research Award recipient and a finalist for the 2009/2010 University of Memphis Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award.

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Workshop Abstracts

New Methods for Measuring, Monitoring, and Evaluating Post-Disaster Recovery
With Beverly Adams, John Bevington, Stephanie Chang, Rachel Davidson, Ronald Eguchi, Dana Rathfon, and Marleen de Ruiter

PowerPoint Presentations from the 2010 Natural Hazards Workshop

Assessing Community-Scale Disruption and Restoration of Basic Needs in Post-earthquake Haiti
Arleen Hill