Patrick Roberts
Patrick S. Roberts is an assistant professor with the Center for Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech University in Alexandria, Virginia. He is serving as the 2010-2011 Ghaemian Scholar-in-Residence at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
Roberts spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and another year at the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University.
He has published in a variety of scholarly and popular journals, and his research has been funded by United States government agencies and the Social Science Research Council. His current project is a book manuscript, Disasters and the American State: How Bureaucrats, Politicians, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected.
Workshop Abstracts
Perceiving Crisis: Understanding How a Network Identifies Problems and Solutions to Food Insecurity in Chad and Niger
Related Resources from Patrick Roberts
Private Choices, Public Harms: The Evolution of National Disaster Organizations in the United States
From Disaster and the Politics of Intervention, 2010
