Alka Sapat

Alka Sapat is a professor and director at the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. Her expertise encompasses disaster management, public policy processes, vulnerability and resilience assessment, and methodology. She was a research fellow with the National Science Foundation's (NSF) next generation of hazards researchers program and has been involved in a number of initiatives including NSF funded projects on building code regulations, population displacement after disasters and implications for housing, the role of nongovernmental organizations in disaster recovery, and critical infrastructure resilience. Her work has been published in the Natural Hazards Review, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, and other scholarly venues. Her teaching interests include disaster management and homeland security, disaster planning and public policy, research methods, and statistical analysis. She serves on the Florida State Disaster Housing Task Force and the Governor's Hurricane Conference committee, along with serving on local committees on post-disaster housing initiatives. She is the coauthor of the 2014 book, Displaced by Disasters: Recovery and Resilience in a Globalizing World, and co-editor of the 2017 book, Coming Home after Disaster: Multiple Dimensions of Housing Recovery.