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Alice Fothergill is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vermont's College of Arts and Sciences. She joined UVM in 2003 and has been a faculty member at the University of Akron earlier in her career. Her primary research focuses on disaster sociology, with an emphasis on children, youth, gender, and inequality. She has conducted groundbreaking studies on disaster impacts through qualitative methods, including a 7-year study on children affected by Hurricane Katrina (published as Children of Katrina in 2015), which earned the ASA Children and Youth Section’s Outstanding Scholarship Award in 2016.
Dr. Fothergill holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder (2001). Her work spans disasters like Hurricane Katrina, the 2011 Vermont Tropical Storm Irene recovery, and the 2015 Nepal earthquake. She has served as an editor for the seminal textbook Social Vulnerability to Disasters (2010, 2013). In 2017, she was a Fulbright Scholar at New Zealand's Joint Centre for Disaster Research, studying childcare preparedness. Her current research examines pandemic impacts on children, youth, and older adults under grant funding.
Her teaching integrates service learning, notably post-Irene recovery projects. Notable publications include Heads Above Water (2004) on gender and disaster recovery, and over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Awards include the 2017 Fulbright Fellowship and ASA recognition. She collaborates internationally on disaster vulnerability frameworks and ethical research practices.
