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Alice Fothergill ALICE FOTHERGILL University of Vermont, Department of Sociology, 31 South Prospect Street, Burlington, Vermont 05405 (802) 656-2127 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION 2001 Ph.D. Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, with distinction 1989 B.A. Sociology, University of Vermont, Magna Cum Laude 1987 State University of New York at Catholic University, Lima, Peru ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2017- Professor, University of Vermont, Department of Sociology 2017 Fulbright Fellowship, Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand 2008-2017 Associate Professor, University of Vermont, Department of Sociology 2003-2008 Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, Department of Sociology 2001-2003 Assistant Professor, University of Akron, Department of Sociology 1994-1999 Research Assistant, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado 1998 Adjunct Faculty, Regis University, Denver, Department of Sociology 1997-2000 Graduate Instructor, University of Colorado, Department of Sociology AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Sociology of Disaster, Children & Youth, Family, Gender, Qualitative Methods, Inequality, Service Learning BOOKS Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek. 2015. Children of Katrina. Austin: University of Texas Press. * *Winner of the Outstanding Scholarly Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association Children and Youth Section, 2016 *Winner of the Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology, 2016 *Honorable Mention, Leo Goodman Award for the American Sociological Association Methodology Section 2016. * Finalist, Colorado Book Awards, 2016 *Outstanding Academic Title by Choice magazine, Association of College and Research Libraries/American Library Association, 2017 Deborah S.K. Thomas, Brenda D. Phillips, William E. Lovekamp, Alice Fothergill, Editors. 2013. Social Vulnerability to Disasters: 2nd Edition. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. Phillips, Brenda D., Deborah S. K. Thomas, Alice Fothergill, and Lynn Blinn-Pike, Editors. 2010. Social Vulnerability to Disasters. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. Fothergill, Alice. 2004. Heads Above Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the Grand Forks Flood. Albany, NY: State University of New York (SUNY) Press. REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Fothergill, Alice. 2017. “Children, Youth, and Disaster.” Natural Hazard Science, Oxford University Press. Pardee, Jessica W., Lynn Weber, Alice Fothergill, and Lori Peek. 2017. “The Collective Method: Collaborative Social Science Research and Scholarly Accountability.” Qualitative Research. Packenham, Joan P., Richard T. Rosselli, Steve K. Ramsey, Holly A. Taylor, Alice Fothergill, Julia Slutsman, and Aubrey Miller. 2017. “Conducting Science in Disasters: Recommendations from the NIEHS Working Group for Special IRB Considerations in the Review of Disaster Related Research.” Environmental Health Perspectives. Peek, Lori, Alice Fothergill, Jessica W. Pardee, and Lynn Weber. 2014. "Studying Displacement: New Networks, Lessons Learned." Sociological Inquiry 84(3) August, 354–359. Fothergill, Alice. 2013. “Managing Childcare: The Experiences of Mothers and Childcare Workers.” Sociological Inquiry. 83 (3): 421-447. Peek, Lori and Alice Fothergill. 2009. “Using Focus Groups: Lessons from Studying Daycare Centers, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina.” Qualitative Research. 9(1): 31-59. Steffen, Seana Lowe and Alice Fothergill. 2009. “9/11 Volunteerism: A Pathway to Personal Healing and Community Engagement.” The Social Science Journal. 46:29-46. Peek, Lori and Alice Fothergill. 2008. “Displacement, Gender, and the Challenges of Parenting after Hurricane Katrina.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal. 20(3): 69-104. Manuel Pastor, Robert D. Bullard, James K. Boyce, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Beverly Wright. 2006. “Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina.” Race, Poverty, and the Environment. 13(1): 21-25 (this article is based on the Russell Sage Monograph). Fothergill, Alice, Mary Val Palumbo, Betty Rambur, Kyndaron Reinier, and Barbara McIntosh. 2005. “The Volunteer Potential of Inactive Nurses for Disaster Preparedness.” Public Health Nursing. 22(5): 414- 421. Fothergill, Alice and Lori Peek. 2004. “Poverty and Disasters in the United States: A Review of Recent Sociological Findings.” Natural Hazards. 32: 89-110. Fothergill, Alice. 2003. "The Stigma of Charity: Gender, Class, and Disaster Assistance." The Sociological Quarterly. 44(4):659-680. Fothergill, Alice and Kathryn Feltey. 2003. “’I’ve Worked Very Hard and Slept Very Little’: Mothers on the Tenure Track in Academia.” Journal for the Association for Research on Mothering. 5(2):7-19. Article reprinted as a chapter in a commemorative volume of the best articles from the journal: pp. 218- 230 in Motherhood Matters: Motherhood as Discourse and Practice. 2004. Edited by Andrea O’Reilly. Toronto: Association for Research on Mothering. Fothergill, Alice. 2000. "Knowledge Transfer Between Researchers and Practitioners." Natural Hazards Review 1(2): 91-98. Fothergill, Alice. 1999. "Women's Roles in a Disaster." Applied Behavioral Science Review 7(2):125-143. Fothergill, Alice, Enrique Maestas, and JoAnne Darlington. 1999. "Race, Ethnicity, and Disasters in the United States: A Review of the Literature." Disasters 23(2):156-173. Fothergill, Alice. 1999. "An Exploratory Study of Woman Battering in the Grand Forks Flood Disaster: Implications for Community Responses and Policies." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 17(1):79-98. Article reprinted as “Domestic Violence after Disaster: Voices from the 1997 Grand Forks Flood” pp.131-154 in Women and Disasters. 2008. Edited by B. D. Phillips and B. H. Morrow. International Research Committee on Disasters: Xlibris. Fothergill, Alice. 1996. "Gender, Risk, and Disaster." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 14(1):33-56. Article reprinted as a chapter in Migration and Climate Change. 2013. Edited by Hugo, Graeme. University of Oxford, International Migration Institute: Edward Elgar Publishing. T. Fitzgerald, A. Fothergill, K. Gilmore, K. Irwin, C. Kunkel, S. Leahy, J. Nielsen, E. Passerini, M. Virnoche, and G. Walden. 1995. "What's Wrong is Right: A Response to the State of the Discipline." Sociological Forum 10(3):493-498. MONOGRAPHS Manuel Pastor, Robert D. Bullard, James K. Boyce, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Beverly Wright. 2006. In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. BOOK CHAPTERS Enarson, Elaine, Alice Fothergill, and Lori Peek. 2018. “Gender and Disaster: Foundations and New Directions for Research and Practice” pp. 205-223 in Handbook of Disaster Research, Second Edition. Edited by H. Rodriguez, J. Trainor, and W. Donner. New York: Springer. Peek, Lori, David M. Abramson, Robin S. Cox, Alice Fothergill, and Jennifer Tobin. 2018. “Children and Disasters” pp. 243-262 in Handbook of Disaster Research, Second Edition, edited by H. Rodriguez, J. Trainor, and W. Donner. New York: Springer. Fothergill, Alice and Emma Squier. 2018. “The Vulnerability of Children and Women in the 2015 Earthquake in Nepal” in Living under Threat of Earthquake: Short- and Long-Term Management of Earthquake Risk and Damage Prevention in Nepal. Edited by R. Adhikari, U. Dorka, and J. Kruhl. New York: Springer. Fothergill, Alice and Lori Peek. 2012. “Permanent Temporariness: Displaced Children in Louisiana” pp. 119-143 in Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora, edited by L. Weber and L. Peek. Austin: University of Texas Press. Peek, Lori and Alice Fothergill. 2009. “Parenting in the Wake of Disaster: Mothers and Fathers Respond to Hurricane Katrina.” In Women, Gender, and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives, edited by Elaine Enarson and P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti. Los Angeles: Sage Publishers. Fothergill, Alice and Lori Peek. 2006. “Surviving Catastrophe: A Study of Children in Hurricane Katrina” pp. 97-129 in Learning from Catastrophe: Quick Response Research in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado. Enarson, Elaine, Alice Fothergill, and Lori Peek. 2006. “Gender and Disaster: Foundations and Directions” pp. 130-146 in Handbook of Disaster Research, edited by H. Rodriguez, E. L. Quarantelli, and R. Dynes. New York: Springer. Lowe, Seana and Alice Fothergill. 2003. “A Need to Help: Emergent Volunteer Behavior after September 11th” pages 293-314 in Beyond September 11th: An Account of Post-Disaster Research. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado. Fothergill, Alice. 1998. “The Neglect of Gender in Disaster Work: An Overview of the Literature” pp.11-25 in The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes (1998) edited by Betty Hearn Morrow and Elaine Enarson. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group (revised article). PUBLISHED ARTICLES/ REPORTS/ BLOGS Fothergill, Alice and Jenniffer Santos-Hernández. 2018. “Hurricane kids: What Katrina taught us about saving Puerto Rico’s youngest storm victims.” The Conversation. September 20, 2018. https://theconversation.com/hurricane-kids-what-katrina-taught-us-about-saving-puerto-ricos-youngest- storm-victims-101509 Fothergill, Alice and Lori Peek. 2017. “Kids, Creativity, and Katrina.” Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds. Vol. 16. No. 2. Fothergill, Alice and Lori Peek. 2017. “Supporting Children in All the Spheres of Their
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