Jennifer (Jenn) Trivedi

Jennifer (Jenn) Trivedi is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, a Core Faculty member at the Disaster Research Center, and has a joint appointment with the Biden School of Public Policy & Administration 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 long-term recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic in higher education, 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, 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 PhD and Master of Arts in anthropology from the University of Iowa and her Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Georgia with a minor in anthropology.