Annual Hazards and Disasters Student Paper Competition
Previous Winners
2011 Winners
Jennifer Tobin-Gurley, Colorado State University
First Place, Graduate Student
Downward Mobility: Displaced Single Mothers in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Julie Broderick, Mount Royal University
First Place, Undergraduate Student
The Biopolitics of Desire: Exploring the Axis of Sexuality during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Thailand
2010 Winners
Melissa Kelley, University of California, Los Angeles
First Place, Graduate Student
Predictors of Household Disaster Preparedness in California:
Findings from a Statewide-Telephone Survey
Ysaye Zamore, Colorado State University
First Place, Undergraduate Student
Being Black: Examining the Relationship between Sociodemographic Characteristics, Racial Residential Segregation, and Evacuation Behavior in Hurricane Katrina
2009 Winners
Xiaoli Lu, Leiden University
First Place, Graduate Student
Mass Evacuation in Typhoon Response in Wenzhou, China: A Preliminary Analysis of Progress and Challenges
Megan Reid, University of Texas at Austin
Honorable Mention, Graduate Student
Survivors’ Perceptions of Federal and Non-Governmental Responses to Hurricane Katrina
Krista Richardson, Colorado State University
First Place, Undergraduate Student
Katrina’s Children: An Analysis of Educational Outcomes Among Displaced Children in Colorado
Charles Jacob Huxford, Alexis Blue, and Hope Rietzen, Western Washington University
Honorable Mention, Undergraduate Student
Reversing Rural Abandonment in the Mediterranean: A Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment of Communities on the Ionian Island of Kefalonia, Greece
2007 Winners
Brett Heeger, Brown University
Disasters and CNN: The importance of TV news coverage for provoking private donations for disaster relief
Alex Mitchell, Colorado State University
Impact of Fear: An examination of the 2002 Washington, DC sniper shootings
2006 Winners
Lindsey Barnes, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Public Perceptions of Flash Flood False Alarms: A Denver, Colorado Case Study
Brooke Fisher Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Preparing the People
2005 Winners
Sheridan Wimmer, Kansas State University
Can Biotechnology Help Slow Global Warming?
Hannah Brenkert, University of Colorado
The Place of Fire
2004 Winners
Tristan L. Emery, Purdue University
Untitled (disaster communications)
Walker S. Ashley, University of Georgia
Derecho Hazards in the United States