Associate professor Alice Fothergill is an expert in disaster sociology with a particular focus on the aftermath of hurricanes and flooding as it impacts children and women.
Fothergill went to Louisiana shortly after Katrina hit and has been working on a longitudinal study that follows affected children and their families. She is co-author of "Reconstructing Childhood: An Exploratory Study of Children in Hurricane Katrina."
Fothergill also authored the book, "Heads Above Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the Grand Forks Flood" in 2004.
A story featuring Fothergill and the field of disaster sociology was published in Inside Higher Ed last August: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/29/sociologists_of_disaster_see_research_in_storms
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