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Lori Peek

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Lori Peek's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Colorado Boulder
Masters Sociology University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Lori Peek is a professor of Sociology at University of Colorado at Boulder and director of the Natural Hazards Center. Peek has received many awards for her scholarship, her career in teaching, and her service to the discipline of sociology and broader hazards and disaster field. On April 20, 2021 President Joe Biden nominated Peek to be a Member of Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.

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Lori Peek's Published Works

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Poverty and Disasters in the United States: A Review of Recent Sociological Findings (2004) (820)
Becoming Muslim: The Development of a Religious Identity (2005) (450)
Children and Disasters: Understanding Vulnerability, Developing Capacities, and Promoting Resilience - An Introduction (2008) (413)
The social psychology of public response to warnings of a nuclear power plant accident. (2000) (285)
Using focus groups: lessons from studying daycare centers, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina (2009) (249)
Children with disabilities in the context of disaster: a social vulnerability perspective. (2010) (248)
Gender and Disaster: Foundations and Directions (2007) (241)
The Effect of Proximity to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Subsequent Hurricane Outlook and Optimistic Bias (2011) (100)
The history and future of disaster research. (2002) (96)
Displacement, Gender, and the Challenges of Parenting after Hurricane Katrina (2009) (89)
Natural Disasters and Social Order: Modeling Crime Outcomes in Florida (2009) (73)
An Assessment of Change in Risk Perception and Optimistic Bias for Hurricanes Among Gulf Coast Residents (2014) (70)
A Cognitive‐Affective Scale for Hurricane Risk Perception (2016) (67)
Reactions and response: Muslim students' experiences on New York city campuses post 9/11 (2003) (65)
Gender and Disaster: Foundations and New Directions for Research and Practice (2018) (60)
Economics of Disaster Risk, Social Vulnerability, and Mental Health Resilience (2011) (59)
Disaster-zone research needs a code of conduct (2019) (57)
A Framework for Convergence Research in the Hazards and Disaster Field: The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure CONVERGE Facility (2020) (52)
An exploratory comparison of disasters, riots and terrorist acts. (2003) (39)
Annotated bibliography for public risk communication on warnings for public protective actions response and public education (2006) (39)
Maternal Hurricane Exposure and Fetal Distress Risk (2010) (38)
Schools and Disasters: Safety and Mental Health Assessment and Interventions for Children (2016) (37)
Children of Katrina (2015) (37)
Understanding youth disaster recovery: The vital role of people, places, and activities (2017) (36)
Displaced Single Mothers in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Resource Needs and Resource Acquisition (2010) (35)
Children and Disasters (2018) (34)
Youth Creating Disaster Recovery and Resilience: A Multi-Site Arts-Based Youth Engagement Research Project (2016) (33)
In Their Own Words: Displaced Children's Educational Recovery Needs After Hurricane Katrina (2010) (33)
Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora (2012) (32)
Engaging youth in post-disaster research: Lessons learned from a creative methods approach (2016) (31)
Youth Mortality by Forces of Nature (2008) (31)
Beyond the IRB: An Ethical Toolkit for Long-Term Disaster Research (2014) (28)
Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina, Flood: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2018) (27)
Evidence-based guidelines for protective actions and earthquake early warning systems (2021) (21)
Caring for Children in the Aftermath of Disaster: The Church of the Brethren Children's Disaster Services Program (2008) (21)
Disaster Hits Home (2011) (21)
Interdisciplinary Theory, Methods, and Approaches for Hazards and Disaster Research: An Introduction to the Special Issue (2021) (20)
Community-Level Framework for Seismic Resilience. I: Coupling Socioeconomic Characteristics and Engineering Building Systems (2017) (20)
Abnormal labor outcomes as a function of maternal exposure to a catastrophic hurricane event during pregnancy (2013) (18)
What Methods Do Social Scientists Use to Study Disasters? An Analysis of the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network (2020) (17)
Reconstructing Childhood: An Exploratory Study of Children in Hurricane Katrina (2006) (16)
The Hurricane Sandy Place Report: Evacuation Decisions, Housing Issues and Sense of Community (2015) (15)
Community-Level Framework for Seismic Resilience. II: Multiobjective Optimization and Illustrative Examples (2017) (13)
Hurricane Katrina Research Bibliography (2008) (12)
Parenting in the Wake of Disaster: Mothers and Fathers Respond to Hurricane Katrina (2008) (10)
Quantifying Socioeconomic Impact of a Tornado by Estimating Population Outmigration as a Resilience Metric at the Community Level. (2018) (10)
Children’s Health after the Oil Spill: A Four-State Study Findings from the Gulf Coast Population Impact (GCPI) Project (2013) (10)
Multihazard Analysis: Integrated Engineering and Social Science Approach (2017) (9)
The collective method: collaborative social science research and scholarly accountability (2018) (8)
The Hurricane Sandy person report: disaster exposure, health impacts, economic burden, and social well-being. (2015) (8)
Cascading Risks for Preventable Infectious Diseases in Children and Adolescents during the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine (2022) (7)
Children and Disasters Annotated Resource List (2008) (6)
Using Focus Groups for Qualitative Research (2007) (6)
Incorporating Mental Health Research into Disaster Risk Reduction: An Online Training Module for the Hazards and Disaster Workforce (2021) (6)
Stories for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research Collaboration (2019) (6)
Exposure Outliers: Children, Mothers, and Cumulative Disaster Exposure in Louisiana (2019) (6)
Mortality From Forces of Nature Among Older Adults by Race/Ethnicity and Gender (2020) (5)
Youth creating disaster recovery and resilience in Canada and the United States (2016) (5)
Kids, Creativity, and Katrina (2017) (5)
Recognizing Vulnerability and Capacity: Federal Initiatives Focused on Children and Youth Across the Disaster Lifecycle (2020) (4)
Identifying and Accommodating High-Risk, High-Vulnerability Populations in Disasters (2012) (4)
Health Barriers to Learning (2014) (4)
Transforming the Field of Disaster Research through Training the Next Generation (2006) (4)
Global List and Interactive Web Map of University-Based Hazards and Disaster Research Centers (2020) (3)
Drivers, scales and contexts of disaster risk: An editorial introduction (2016) (3)
Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies in Earthquake-Prone Cities (2016) (3)
Studying Displacement: New Networks, Lessons Learned (2014) (3)
Recognising the vulnerability and capacities of young people (2014) (3)
Getting Interdisciplinary Teams into the Field: Institutional Review Board Preapproval and Multi‐Institution Authorization Agreements for Rapid Response Disaster Research (2021) (3)
Social vulnerability and disasters: development and evaluation of a CONVERGE training module for researchers and practitioners (2022) (3)
Disaster Social Service Volunteers (2012) (3)
Multi-Objective Community-Level Seismic Retrofit Optimization for Resiliency using Engineering and Socioeconomic Variables (2015) (2)
Children Take Charge: Helping Behaviors and Organized Action Among Young People After Hurricane Katrina (2020) (2)
The role of local entrepreneurs in promoting disaster recovery: a review of Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster (2018) (2)
Modeling Community Resilience: Update on the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning and the Computational Environment IN-CORE (2018) (2)
Great expectations for earthquake early warnings on the United States West Coast (2022) (2)
Children of the spills - phase II: the Gulf Coast and the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (2013) (1)
A New System for Disaster Research (2022) (1)
Examining the Dose–Response Relationship: Applying the Disaster Exposure Matrix to Understand the Mental Health Impacts of Hurricane Sandy (2021) (1)
Children of the Spills - Phase I: Alaska and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (2013) (1)
2018 International Sociological Association Research Committee on Disasters (RC39) Presidential Address: Looking Back and Moving Forward (2018) (1)
PrepTalks: Children and Disasters - Reducing Vulnerability and Building Capacity [Transcript] (2018) (1)
Role of the Natural Hazards and Disaster Field in the Aftermath of September 11 (2002) (1)
Youth Creating Disaster Recovery: An International Community-based Participatory Research Project with Youth (2014) (0)
The Disaster Cycle: An Introduction to the Special Issue (2022) (0)
Bridging the Gulf between Meteorologists and Humanitarian Operations (2020) (0)
Hurricane Risk Perception Scale (2018) (0)
CONVERGE Training Modules: A free online educational tool for hazards and disaster researchers and practitioners (2023) (0)
COLLABORATIVE RISK COMMUNICATION FOR LANDSLIDES IN PUERTO RICO (2020) (0)
An Engineer, a Climatologist, and a Social Scientist Walk into a Bar: Tough Choices on a Warming Planet (2020) (0)
Obituary: T. Joseph Scanlon, 1933-2015: (Editorial Board member, Disasters, 2013-15). (2016) (0)
Book Review: Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. (2009) (0)
Building Digital Infrastructure and Communities to Assess Risk of Drinking Water Hazards Caused by Hurricanes Maria and Florence (2018) (0)
Advances in Estimating Mortality Associated With Tropical Cyclones in the US. (2022) (0)
Zahran: Florida Crime Outcomes (2009) (0)
Call for Book Submissions (2001) (0)
Book Review: Review of Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo, 2020 (2022) (0)
Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese Americans (2019) (0)
Natural Disasters and Social Order : Modeling Crime Outcomes in Florida Sammy (2010) (0)
THE COSTS OF NOT RETROFITTING FROM A COMBINED ENGINEERING, SOCIOECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE (2016) (0)
The role of local entrepreneurs in promoting disaster recovery: a review of Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster (2017) (0)
Evaluating Current Research Status and Identifying Most Important Future Research Themes (2021) (0)
LANDSLIDE RISK REDUCTION IN PUERTO RICO: SCIENCE AND RISK COMMUNICATION (2019) (0)
STRATEGIES FOR COMMUNICATING LANDSLIDE RISK IN PUERTO RICO (2019) (0)
The effect of proximity to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on subsequent optimistic bias and the perception of hurricane risk. (2010) (0)
Book Review: Older People in Natural Disasters: The Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (2012) (0)
PrepTalks: Children and Disasters - Reducing Vulnerability and Building Capacity [video] (2018) (0)
Post-disaster research: challenges and opportunities conversation on disasters: deconstructed on 11th of June 2021 (2023) (0)
Hurricane preparedness and sheltering preferences of Muslims living in Florida (2011) (0)
Principles for collaborative risk communication: Reducing landslide losses in Puerto Rico. (2022) (0)
Failure to alert? Exploring perceptions of ShakeAlert during the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake SequenceShow affiliations (2019) (0)

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Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11

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