Liza Kurtz
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Mail code: 4220Campus: Dtphx
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Liza is a research analyst with the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at ASU, a leading resource for relevant research and informed policy choices of public value. Her areas of research include heat, community health, and public safety.
Liza C. Kurtz received her M.A. in Global Health from Arizona State University in 2015 and her B.S. in Sociology from Austin Peay State University in 2011.
Extreme heat, public safety, emergency management, disaster management, housing, electrical grid failure, extreme weather.
Andresen, A. X., Kurtz, L. C., Hondula, D. M., Meerow, S., & Gall, M. (2023). Understanding the social impacts of power outages in North America: a systematic review. Environmental Research Letters, 18(5), 053004.
Watkins, L. E., Wright, M. K., Kurtz, L. C., Chakalian, P. M., Mallen, E. S., Harlan, S. L., & Hondula, D. M. (2021). Extreme heat vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona: A comparison of all-hazard and hazard-specific indices with household experiences. Applied Geography, 131, 102430.
Wright, M. K., Hondula, D. M., Chakalian, P. M., Kurtz, L. C., Watkins, L., Gronlund, C. J., ... & Harlan, S. L. (2020). Social and behavioral determinants of indoor temperatures in air-conditioned homes. Building and Environment, 183, 107187.
Chakalian, P. M., Kurtz, L., Harlan, S. L., White, D., Gronlund, C. J., & Hondula, D. M. (2019). Exploring the social, psychological, and behavioral mechanisms of heat vulnerability in the city of Phoenix, AZ. Journal of Extreme Events, 6(03n04), 2050006.
Chakalian, P. M., Kurtz, L. C., & Hondula, D. M. (2019). After the lights go out: Household resilience to electrical grid failure following Hurricane Irma. Natural Hazards Review, 20(4), 05019001.
Bolin, B., & Kurtz, L. C. (2018). Race, class, ethnicity, and disaster vulnerability. In H. Rodriguez, W. Donner, J. Trainor (Eds.), Handbook of Disaster Research (2nd ed.), pp. 181-203, Springer.
Kurtz, L. C., Trainer, S., Beresford, M., Wutich, A., & Brewis, A. (2017). Blogs as elusive ethnographic texts: Methodological and ethical challenges in qualitative online research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 16(1), 1609406917705796.
Gerbrandt, R. & Kurtz, L.C. (2015). Keeping up appearances: Working class feminists speak up about the success model in academia. In D. King and C.G. Valentine (Eds.), Letting go: Feminist and social justice insight and activism (pp. 161 - 172), Vanderbilt University Press.