Timothy J. Haney

Timothy Haney is professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Sociology Program at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. From 2014-2019 he served as director of MRU’s Centre for Community Disaster Research. Haney is an environmental, disaster, and urban sociologist. His work looks at risk perceptions, post-disaster environmental views, social capital and social networks in disaster, social inequalities in disaster recovery, the development of housing in proximity to natural hazards, as well as methods and ethics for disaster research. Haney is a former New Orleanian who went through Hurricane Katrina, and has taken several classes of undergraduate students to New Orleans to learn about disaster and to serve the community.