Graduate Student Spotlights

Jocelyn West's collaborative research proposal "Assessing Social Vulnerability to Landslides in Rural Puerto Rico" was approved for funding ($49,764) from the Public Health Disaster Research Award Program: Research in U.S. Territories, Tribal

Robert Scott won a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support his dissertation research on wildland firefighters.

Jessica Austin was recently named a National Science Foundation Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students awardee. Jessica will work with Esri, a leading global Geographic Information Systems software company

Rahman, M. M., Islam Arif, Md. S., Mahdi, I., Rafi, Md. A., Chisty, M. A., & Khan, S. J. (2022). Cyclone vulnerability in ethnic minority: A case study among Rakhain community of Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Risk

Jennifer Tostlebe published an article (w/ David Pyrooz), “Procedural justice, legal orientations, and gang membership: Testing an alternative explanation to understand the gang-misconduct link,” in Criminology, the flagship journal of the

Jocelyn West was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which offers $34,000 per year for three years to support her research and graduate education. With this award, she will be studying the social dimensions of landslides in

Melissa received the ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) for her dissertation project, “Documenting the Undocumented: How Mexican Immigrants Navigate Long-Term Post-Disaster Recovery.” She was selected to receive 

Bertha's dissertation work explores the relationship between deportation, asylum policies, and different forms of violence acting simultaneously towards asylum seekers and Mexican deportees in heightened violent border cities. Her research is an