Lauren E. Barsky, M.A.

Disaster Research Center (DRC)
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
University of Delaware
87 East Main Street
Newark, DE 19716-2581

Phone: (302) 831-6624 | Fax: (302) 831-2091
Email: lbarsky@udel.edu | Web Page

Managing volunteers: FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue programme
and interactions with unaffiliated responders in disaster response.
Lauren E. Barsky, Joseph E. Trainor, Manuel R. Torres and Benigno. E. Aguirre

Learning from Catastrophe
Quick Response Research in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Table of Contents (pdf)

Handbook of Disaster Research
Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
Rodriguez, Havidan; Quarantelli, Enrico L.; Dynes, Russell (Eds.)
2006, XXXII, 611 p., 31 illus., Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-387-32331-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-32331-2

Contributors - Chapter 12

UD profs, students contribute to new book on disaster research

Disaster Realities in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
Revisiting the Looting Myth
, 4/6/06

After the Disaster - Christian Science Monitor, 11/17/05

Interview: National Public Radio, 9/21/05

UD Team Heads to Gulf for Research

Hurricane Katrina Quick Response Grants

NSF awards DRC undergrad research grants



President Bush visits Joint Field Office/DRC team headquarters, 9/25/2005

Students involved in the NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program at UD this summer meet with principal investigator Rodriguez (far right).

Carla Russell (left), AS ‘05, and UD grad student Lauren Barsky (center) worked with Rodriguez (right) to organize the Research Experience for Undergraduates at UD this summer.