Elaine Enarson
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Dr.
Elaine
Enarson
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About you (please use English):
Dr. Elaine Enarson received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oregon and published her dissertation as Woods-Working Women: Sexual Integration in the U.S. Forest Service (1984). She was the first director of women’s studies at the University of Nevada-Reno and coordinated the Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence. Following a move to hurricane-struck Miami, she became an ‘accidental’ disaster sociologist and gender and disaster consultant. In addition to conducting disaster field studies in the US, Canada, and India, she was lead course developer of FEMA’s on-line social vulnerability course, and initiated and managed the Gender and Disaster Sourcebook project and a grassroots model used in the Caribbean to engage local women in risk mapping. As a gender consultant, she has engaged with the ILO, World Vision and UNIFEM (UNWomen) on post-disaster projects in India and Indonesia, and lectures internationally on gender-based violence in disasters and related topics. Elaine co-founded the global Gender and Disaster Network and was founder and facilitator of the US Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance. She has published widely in the field, including co-editing three readers on gender and disaster including The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race and Class Matter in an American Disaster. Her monograph Women Confronting Natural Disaster: From Vulnerability to Resilience, a book about the United States, was released in 2012. After teaching for several years in Manitoba at Brandon University’s Department of Applied Disaster and Emergency Studies, she returned to independent work in Colorado where she offers distance education courses to graduate students in emergency management. Currently, she is finalizing the Disaster Quilt Project, an interactive educational website project, and the co-edited international reader Men, Masculinities and Disaster.
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Stakeholder group:
Science stakeholders, Teachers, educators, learners, Scientists & Researcher, Policy stakeholders, Education & training policy makers, Gender equality policy makers, Gender equality stakeholders, Gender networks (women’s, men's, sexuality,...), Gender equality practitioners & advisers, Gender equality NGO’s and lobbies
Contact details
Spoken languages:
English
City:
Longmont Colorado
Street:
11961 N 75th St
ZIP:
80503
Personal web or blog:
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Area of Gender Expertise:
Country coverage:
US, CA, AU
Skills and track record:
Teaching (a wide range of gender courses since 1975 including methods and theory courses; and a wide range of disaster studies courses; and gender/disaster/climate courses)
Consulting (including on the need for disaggregated data in disaster, climate, and risk management research)
Research (including qualitative and mixed methods inquiry around gender and disaster topics)
Writing (including on what a gender lens offers, e.g. to climate, disaster, and human security research)
Advocacy (including with antiviolence activists, women in emergency management networks, and global networks on gender equality and disaster risk reduction)
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