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Jennifer Trivedi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware's College of Arts & Sciences, where she also serves as a Core Faculty Member at the Disaster Research Center and holds a Joint Appointment with the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration. Her work bridges anthropology with disaster studies, focusing on the cultural and historical contexts that shape disaster vulnerability, response, and recovery.
Education:
- PhD in Anthropology, University of Iowa (2016)
- MA in Anthropology, University of Iowa (2007)
- BA in History, University of Georgia (2004)
Dr. Trivedi's research examines disaster vulnerability, response, recovery, resilience, and decision-making within larger historical and cultural contexts. She investigates how pre-disaster processes, history, and perceptions shape disaster impacts and long-term recovery. Her work emphasizes compounding disasters, cultural issues in disaster contexts, challenges for vulnerable populations during disasters, and the temporal aspects of disaster experiences. She employs both long-term ethnographic fieldwork and rapid response methodologies to study disasters across the American Southeast and beyond.
Her recent publications reveal a growing focus on the intersection of disasters with contemporary challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, evacuation behavior analysis using smartphone data, and the specific challenges faced by vulnerable populations during disasters. Her work increasingly examines compound disasters where multiple events interact to create complex recovery landscapes, with particular attention to temporal aspects of disaster experiences and decision-making processes.
Dr. Trivedi has secured significant research funding, including NSF grants for projects like 'CRISES: Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Catastrophic Surprises' and 'Leveraging Massive Smartphone Location Data to Improve Understanding and Prediction of Behavior in Hurricanes.' She also received UD Climate Change Hub and Course Development Grants for revising climate change-related courses.
As a Core Faculty Member at the Disaster Research Center, Dr. Trivedi contributes to one of the oldest disaster research centers in the United States. She serves as Social Media Manager for the Risk and Disaster Topical Interest Group in the Society for Applied Anthropology and chairs their Human Rights and Social Justice Committee. She has also been involved in organizing the Natural Hazards Researchers Meeting for 2023-2025.
