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.
  • Mara DeFilippis is an Asst Director on the Employer Engagement team at W.P. Carey School of Business, partnering with companies in diverse industries, such as utilities, government, healthcare, aerospace, defense and others.
  • 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.
  • Gall is a hazards geographer and studies how natural hazards and society interact. She utilizes geospatial analytics and disaster metrics (vulnerability indices, losses, etc.) to capture these interactions.