THOMAS W. HAASE Department of Political Science Sam Houston State University Huntsville, Texas 77341 (936) 294-1470 ¦ [email protected] ¦ @twhaase EDUCATION PhD Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh 2009 JD University of Pittsburgh 2001 BA Political Science and History Majors, Chadron State College 1998 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE September 2021 – Present Associate Professor of Public Administration Department of Political Science Sam Houston State University August 2015 – August 2021 Assistant Professor of Public Administration Department of Political Science Sam Houston State University August 2019 – August 2021 Director, MPA Program Department of Political Science Sam Houston State University August 2018 – August 2019 Co-Director / Academic Advisor, MPA Program Department of Political Science Sam Houston State University September 2011 - January 2015 Department Chair Department of Political Studies and Public Administration American University of Beirut September 2010 - August 2015 Assistant Professor of Public Administration Department of Political Studies and Public Administration American University of Beirut February 2014 - June 2014 International Visiting Scholar International Program on Urban Governance National Taipei University August 2004 - August 2010 Adjunct Faculty Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh RESEARCH INTERESTS Disaster management, community resilience, emergency management higher education, network governance, public management, comparative public administration, and case study pedagogy PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES Haase, Thomas W., Wang, Wen-Jiun & Ross, Ashley. (2021) “The Six Capacities of Community Resilience: Evidence from Three Small Texas Communities Impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Natural Hazards. Published Online, June 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021- 04870-y Haase, Thomas W. (2020) “Structural Change in Disaster Response Networks: Indonesia and the 2004 Indian Earthquake and Tsunami.” The Taiwanese Political Science Review, 24 (1): 163- 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.6683/TPSR.202006_24(1).0004 Wang, Wen-Jiun, Thomas W. Haase, and Chia-Hsuan Yang. (2020) “Warning Message Elements and Retweet Counts: An Analysis of Tweets Sent during Hurricane Irma.” Natural Hazards Review, 21 (1): 2160-185. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000351 Haase, Thomas W. and Fatih Demiroz. (2019) “Considerations of Resilience in the Homeland Security Literature: Towards Conceptual Convergence?” Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 17 (2). https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsem-2018-0078 Comfort, Louise K., Thomas W. Haase, Gunes Ertan, and Steve Scheinert. (2019) “The Dynamics of Change Following Extreme Events: Transition, Scale, and Adaptation in Systems Under Stress.” Administration & Society, 52 (6): 827-861. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399719869991 Demiroz, Fatih and Thomas W. Haase. (2018) “The Concept of Resilience: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Emergency and Disaster Management Literature.” Local Government Studies, 45 (3): 308-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2018.1541796 Haase, Thomas W., Tania Haddad, and Noura El-Badri. (2017) “Public Administration Higher Education in Lebanon: An Investigation into the Substance of Advertised Courses.” Journal of Public Affairs Education, 24 (1): 43-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/15236803.2018.1429820 Haase, Thomas W. (2017) “A Challenging State of Affairs: Public Administration in the Republic of Lebanon.” International Journal of Public Administration, 41 (10): 792-806. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2017.1387148 Haase, Thomas W., Gunes Ertan, and Louise K. Comfort. (2017) “The Roots of Community Resilience: A Comparative Analysis of Structural Change in Four Gulf Coast Hurricane Response Networks.” Homeland Security Affairs, 13 (October). https://www.hsaj.org/articles/14095 Haase, Thomas W., and Tania Haddad. (2015) “Building Capacity? Civil Society Education in Lebanon’s Institutions of Higher Education.” Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 5 (4): 261–288. https://doi.org/10.18666/JNEL-2015-V5-I4-7030 Comfort, Louise K. and Thomas W. Haase. (2006) “Communication, Coherence and Collective Action: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Infrastructure.” Journal of Public Works Management and Policy, 10 (4): 328-343. https://doi.org/10.1177/1087724X06289052 2 PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS Haddad, Tania, Thomas W. Haase, and Melissa Ajamian. (2018) “Religion, Relief and Reform: The History of Civil Society in Lebanon.” In Religion and Civil Society in the Arab World: In the Vortex of Globalization and Tradition, edited by Tania Haddad and Elie Al Hindi, 128- 159. New York, NY: Routledge Ajamian, Melissa and Thomas Haase. (2018) “Constraints to Lebanese Nongovernmental Organizations: A Survey of the Literature.” In Religion and Civil Society in the Arab World: In the Vortex of Globalization and Tradition, edited by Tania Haddad and Elie Al Hindi, 160- 185. New York, NY: Routledge Haase, Thomas W. and Randa Antoun. (2015) “Decentralization in Lebanon.” In Public Administration and Policy in the Middle East, edited by Alexander R. Dawoody, 189–213. New York, NY: Springer Haase, Thomas W. (2014) “Disaster Management and the Republic of Lebanon.” In Disaster & Development: Examining Global Issues and Cases, edited by Naim Kapucu and Tom Liou Kuotsai, 129-148. New York, NY: Springer Haase, Thomas W. (2010) “International Disaster Resilience: Preparing for Transnational Disaster.” In Designing Resilience for Extreme Events: Sociotechnical Approaches, edited by Louise K. Comfort, Arjen Boin, and Chris C. Demchak, 220-243. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press PEER-REVIEWED ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Haase, Thomas W., Mona Harb, and Sami Atallah. (2016) “Decentralization in Lebanon.” In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, edited by Ali Farazmand, 1–8. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319- 31816-5_2423-1 Haase, Thomas W. (2017) “Uncertainty in Crisis Management.” In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, edited by Ali Farazmand, 1–5. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2922-1 BOOK REVIEWS Haase, Thomas W. (2020) Review of “Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin” by Todd M. Kerstetter. Great Plains Quarterly, 40 (1): 114-115 Haase, Thomas W. (2017) Review of “Faces of Béxar: Early San Antonio and Texas” by Jesús F. de La Teja. Great Plains Quarterly, 37 (2): 153–154 Haase, Thomas W. (2015) Review of “Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific: Policy and Governance,” edited by Caroline Brassard, David W. Giles, and Arnold M. Howitt. Natural Hazards Observer, Vol. XL, No. 1 (September): 30 Haase, Thomas W. (2015) Review of “Strong, Safe and Resilient: A Strategic Policy Guide for Disaster-risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific,” edited by Abhas Kumar Jha and Zuzana Stanton-Gedes. Natural Hazards Observer, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4 (March): 30 3 Haase, Thomas W. (2015) Review of “Building Urban Resilience: Principles, Tools and Practice,” edited by Abhas Kumar Jha, Zuzana Stanton-Gedes, and Todd W. Miner. Natural Hazards Observer, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4 (March): 30-31 Haase, Thomas W. (2011) Review of “Diversity and Complexity” by Scott E. Page. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 13 (1): 102-103 Haase, Thomas W. (2007) Review of “Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis” by Robert J. Lempert, Steven W. Popper, and Steven C. Bankes. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 9 (2): 213-214 MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW Haase, Thomas W. (2021). “Public Administration in the Republic of Lebanon: The Current State of Affairs.” Routledge/Taylor and Francis (Tentatively Accepted; Revise and Resubmit Submitted) Haase, Thomas W., Wen-Jiun Wang, and Ashley D. Ross (2021) “The six capacities of community resilience: evidence from three small Texas communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey” Natural Hazards (Under Review) MANUSCRIPTS UNDER PREPERATION Haase, Thomas W. and James Greene. “Emergency Management and Homeland Security: A Comparison of Graduate Programs.” Data collected and under analysis, will be submitted to Journal of Public Affairs Education Haase, Thomas W., Monica Martinez, Cheree Smith, and Chelsie Kemp. (n.d.) “Emergency Management and Institutions of Higher Education: The Decade Ahead.” Data collected and under analysis, preparing draft for submission to Disasters Wukich, Clayton, Thomas W. Haase and Wen-Jiun Wang (n.d.) “The Distribution of Risk Information via Facebook: The Case of Hurricane Florence.” Data collected and analyzed, preparing draft for submission to the Journal of Emergency Management REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS Haase, Thomas. W. and Wen-Jiun Wang. (2021) The SWIF Case Method: Bolstering Master of Public Administration (MPA) Online Education. Teaching Innovation Grant Report, Professional and Academic Center, Sam Houston State University Haase, Thomas W. and Fatih Demiroz. (2016) Report on Study of Management and Policy Issues in Greater Houston Area. Greater Houston Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration, Houston, Texas Wukich, Clayton and Thomas W. Haase (2015) Program Review of the Master of Public Administration Program. College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sam Houston State University Comfort, Louise K., Namkyung Oh, Gunes Etran and Thomas W. Haase (2013) “Interorganizational