Sociology of Disaster
Environmental Sociology Urban Sociology Social Inequalities (Class, Race, Gender) Poverty and Public Policy |
Timothy J. Haney, Ph.D.
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PhD: University of Oregon
(Eugene, OR ), 2009 [Click for Dissertation] M.A.: Tulane University (New Orleans, LA), 2005 [Click for Thesis] BA: Ripon College (Ripon WI), 2003 |
About Me
After living in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina (2005) and in Calgary during the Southern Alberta flooding (2013), I finally came to terms with my identity as a disaster researcher. My interests revolve around how families, neighbourhoods, and communities prepare for, evacuate from, and recover from floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, oil spills, and other catastrophic events.
This core interest in disaster and catastrophe led to papers analyzing the use of social capital by residents of two highly unequal neighbourhoods before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as an analysis of the strategies employed by families deciding whether, when, and how to evacuate from an impending disaster. More recently, I have done analyses of environmental justice in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and am in the process of launching several projects on the recent Southern Alberta flood.
All of my research involves the question of how inequalities operate across space and through time. Beyond my work on disaster, I have analyzed the relationship between neighbourhood conditions and self-esteem, the effect of space and place on women welfare recipients prior to the U.S.'s welfare reform legislation, and the effect of space and place on employment immediately after these same policy changes (the latter was selected as the best paper published in the Journal of Urban Affairs for 2014).
Lastly, I have experience in the areas of grant-writing, original research and survey design, as well as analysis of spatial and longitudinal data. I participated in one of the first on-the-ground efforts to survey New Orleanians in the city's most damaged neighbourhoods, and also merged a set of longitudinal survey data with spatial (census block group) data in order to create the first longitudinal, multi-city, geographically linked data set, necessary for understanding quantitatively how people are affected by the neighbourhoods in which they live and spend their time. My research has been funded by the Government of Canada (SSHRC), the U.S. Government (HUD), and numerous other sources.
Much like my research, my teaching interests include inequalities (class/race/gender) and poverty, urban sociology, research methods, quantitative methods and statistics, the sociology of work, and the sociology of disaster. I enjoy developing innovative teaching methods and exercises, engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning, and challenging students to see society (and inequalities) in new ways.
I grew up in and around the automobile industry in Janesville, Wisconsin, home (until recently) of a large General Motors production facility. Through time spent working at the plant, I became a third generation automobile worker. These experiences provided the impetus for my scholarly interests in class inequalities, the sociology of work, and labour market dynamics.
Please click on the links above to learn more about my teaching and research.
This core interest in disaster and catastrophe led to papers analyzing the use of social capital by residents of two highly unequal neighbourhoods before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as an analysis of the strategies employed by families deciding whether, when, and how to evacuate from an impending disaster. More recently, I have done analyses of environmental justice in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and am in the process of launching several projects on the recent Southern Alberta flood.
All of my research involves the question of how inequalities operate across space and through time. Beyond my work on disaster, I have analyzed the relationship between neighbourhood conditions and self-esteem, the effect of space and place on women welfare recipients prior to the U.S.'s welfare reform legislation, and the effect of space and place on employment immediately after these same policy changes (the latter was selected as the best paper published in the Journal of Urban Affairs for 2014).
Lastly, I have experience in the areas of grant-writing, original research and survey design, as well as analysis of spatial and longitudinal data. I participated in one of the first on-the-ground efforts to survey New Orleanians in the city's most damaged neighbourhoods, and also merged a set of longitudinal survey data with spatial (census block group) data in order to create the first longitudinal, multi-city, geographically linked data set, necessary for understanding quantitatively how people are affected by the neighbourhoods in which they live and spend their time. My research has been funded by the Government of Canada (SSHRC), the U.S. Government (HUD), and numerous other sources.
Much like my research, my teaching interests include inequalities (class/race/gender) and poverty, urban sociology, research methods, quantitative methods and statistics, the sociology of work, and the sociology of disaster. I enjoy developing innovative teaching methods and exercises, engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning, and challenging students to see society (and inequalities) in new ways.
I grew up in and around the automobile industry in Janesville, Wisconsin, home (until recently) of a large General Motors production facility. Through time spent working at the plant, I became a third generation automobile worker. These experiences provided the impetus for my scholarly interests in class inequalities, the sociology of work, and labour market dynamics.
Please click on the links above to learn more about my teaching and research.
