Tricia Wachtendorf
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University of Delaware
Tricia Wachtendorf is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is the co-director of the Disaster Research Center and author of American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11.