Ryan Alaniz
Ryan Alaniz is an assistant professor at Cal Poly State University and active Fulbright Alumni Ambassador. Alaniz holds a Masters of Arts in Latin American studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota. He has won numerous major fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Inter-American Foundation, the Public Entity Risk Institute, Society for the Study of Social Problems, and National Science Foundation. After spending almost 20 years working on various grassroots development projects in the Global South, his doctoral dissertation investigates the long-term social health (e.g., trust, low crime, participation, etc.) of post-disaster planned communities. More specifically, Alaniz focuses on seven Honduran communities eleven years after Hurricane Mitch, investigating how residents and sponsoring NGOs work together to create a resettlement into a "community". His current research involves the recovery/development of disaster-induced re-settlements and emergency communication as a disaster mitigation and relief tool in El Salvador.
Related Resources from Ryan Alaniz
Unsupervised Recovery: Adaptation Strategies by two NGOs in Post-Mitch Honduras
Studies of the University: Research, Counsel, Education, 2012
