We are extremely pleased to announce the selection of the 2006/7 PERISHIP Fellows in Hazards, Risk, and Disasters!! The 2004 fellowships were funded by the National Science Foundation, which established the program. In 2006, Swiss Re sponsored 2 fellowships for work in the physical sciences and the National Science Foundation and provided funding for 6 fellowships across all disciplines for work in any relevant field of the natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, specialties in engineering, or interdisciplinary programs, such as environmental studies.

Please click on the following links for biographies and descriptions of the dissertation work:

CURRENT FELLOWS (2006/7)

Jong-Wha Bai, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M, "Seismic Fragility Analysis and Loss Estimation for Concrete Structures."

Kapil Khandelwal, Structural Engineering, University of Michigan, "Progressive Collapse Mitigation in Steel Structures."

Anuradha Mukherji, Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, "Negotiating Housing Recovery in Post-Earthquake Urban Kutch, India."

JiYoung Park, Planning, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, “Essays on Economic Modeling: Spatial-Temporal Extensions and Verification. ”

Scott Somers, Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, “Building Resilience Potential: Toward a New Paradigm in Disaster Planning.”

Anna Versluis, Geography, Clark University, “We All Live Downstream: Flood Hazard and Land Change in Southeast Haiti.”

Sarah Vogel, History of Public Health in the Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, “Uncertainty and risk in the plastics age: a history of the science and politics of bisphenol A.”

Tamara Wall, Interdisciplinary Studies in Geography, University of Montana, “Resident's Perceptions of Place and Wildfire Hazards and Risks in Southwestern Montana.”

PAST FELLOWS (2004)