Jennifer Trivedi

Jennifer (Jenn) Trivedi is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and a Core Faculty member at the Disaster Research Center (DRC) at the University of Delaware. Her larger work focuses on the historical and cultural contexts of disasters, including decision-making, timing, response, and recovery. Her ongoing research examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on different groups in the United States, questions of hurricane evacuation decision making and timing as part of an interdisciplinary team, and processes of short- and long-term disaster recovery. She has a book out with Lexington Books, Mississippi after Katrina: Disaster Recovery & Reconstruction on the Gulf Coast.

She is a current member and social media manager for the Risk and Disaster Topical Interest Group (R&D TIG; @RiskDisasterTIG) in the Society for Applied Anthropology (SFAA), as well as a former R&D TIG co-chair.

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the DRC from 2016-18, working on a large NSF funded evacuation study. She earned her Ph.D and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Iowa and her A.B. in History from the University of Georgia with a minor in Anthropology.