Seven PhD students will receive a $10,000 grant to support interdisciplinary dissertation work courtesy of the 2011 PERISHIP Dissertation Fellowship Program in Hazards, Risks, and Disasters. The winners were announced during the opening ceremony of Natural Hazards Workshop.
The program assists top scholars in the completion of hazards dissertation work in natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, engineering, and in interdisciplinary programs such as environmental studies.
The PERISHIP Fellowship is administered by a partnership between the Natural Hazards Center and the Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) with funding from Swiss Re and the National Science Foundation.
The 2011 PERISHIP Fellows and their dissertations are:
Christian S. Chan, University of Massachusetts Boston, Department of Psychology Measuring Exposure in Natural Disaster: A Meta-Analysis and a Multi-Wave Longitudinal Study
Albert J. Faas, University of South Florida, Department of Anthropology Reciprocity and Political Power in Disaster-Induced Resettlements in Andean Ecuador
Michelle Lueck, Colorado State University, Department of Sociology Community Disaster Resilience: The Role of Collective Efficacy and Social Capital
Ward Lyles, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Planning Stakeholder Network Influences on Local-Level Hazard Mitigation Planning Outputs
Julie K. Maldonado, American University, Department of Anthropology Transforming Environments: The Lived Experience of Facing Displacement in the Louisiana Bayou
Trevor Maynard, University of California, Department of Mechanical Engineering The Effect of Spot Fire Ignition Spacing on Prescribed and Wildland Fire Behavior
Lauren Patterson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Geography Interconnections between Drought and Water Policy in the South Atlantic, USA
For more information on the fellowship, visit the PERISHIP website.