Profiles in "Resilience" Expertise Area

  • Hondula, associate professor and member of the Urban Climate Research Center, researches the societal impacts of weather and climate, including efforts to learn how individuals experience and cope with extreme heat.
  • Casey Sechler is the Associate Director, Research for the Global Sport Institute where she advances the Institute’s research initiatives.
  • Gerber's research specialization areas include disasters and public policy, emergency management, homeland security policy and administration, and environmental regulatory policy.
  • Brown's scholarship focuses on the effects of poverty and violence as related to the resiliency, health and well-being of underserved communities, including African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, and urban Native Americans.
  • Mikaella Polyviou studies the resilience of organizations to supply chain disruptions. She teaches Strategic Procurement and Supply Management/ Negotiations and received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in 2021.
  • Bienenstock's substantive area of specialization within sociology is social psychology, with emphasis on emergent properties of exchange.