Lori Peek
Biographic Data
| ID | 246499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori Peek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori |
| FAMILY NAME | Peek |
| SIGNATURE | PEEK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8108-6605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Displaced
Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrina’s landfall. New Orleans, a city of 500,000, was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding. Katrina survivors eventually scattered across all fifty states, and tens of thousands still remain displaced. Some are desperate to return to the Gulf Coast but cannot find the means. Other…
Disaster Social Service Volunteers
This article presents the results of an evaluation of a volunteer training program that prepares participants to enter postdisaster settings to work with affected children and families. The evaluation, which uses a knowledge-skills-attitudes (KSA) approach, draws on the results of a telephone survey with 46 randomly selected program volunteers. Volunteers reported statistically significant knowledge gains in the three primary training areas: prog…
Disaster Hits Home
The authors explored individual and family adjustment processes among parents ( n = 30) and children ( n = 55) who were displaced to Colorado after Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 23 families, this article offers an inductive model of displaced family adjustment. Four stages of family adjustment are presented in the model: (a) family unity stage, (b) prioritizing safety stage (parents) and missing home stage (children), (c)…
Children With Disabilities in the Context of Disaster
An estimated 200 million children worldwide experience various forms of disability. This critical review extrapolates from existing literature in 2 distinct areas of scholarship: one on individuals with disabilities in disaster, and the other on children in disaster. The extant literature suggests that various factors may contribute to the physical, psychological, and educational vulnerability of children with disabilities in disaster, including …
Using focus groups
The purpose of this article is to examine focus groups as a qualitative research method. We describe and evaluate the use of focus groups based on three separate research projects: a study of teachers, parents, and children at two urban daycare centers; a study of the responses of second-generation Muslim Americans to the events of September 11; and a collaborative project on the experiences of children and youth following Hurricane Katrina. By e…
Children and Disasters
This comprehensive overview of the literature on children and disasters argues that scholars and practitioners should more carefully consider the experiences of children themselves. As the frequency and intensity of disaster events increase around the globe, children are among those most at risk for the negative effects of disaster. Children are psychologically vulnerable and may develop post-traumatic stress disorder or related symptoms; are phy…
Hurricane Katrina
Katrina” was initially the code‐name given to a powerful hurricane that gathered force out in the Atlantic in the summer of 2005, moved across the southern tip of Florida, and then landed with a vengeance on the US Gulf Coast. The reason “Katrina” has become a prominent name in modern history and has earned a place in this encyclopedia, however, has to do with its aftereffects. Hurricanes are measured by the velocity of their winds, the height of…
Becoming Muslim
Journal Article Becoming Muslim: The Development of a Religious Identity Get access Lori Peek Lori Peek Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 3, Fall 2005, Pages 215–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153097 Published: 01 October 2005
Poverty and Disasters in the United States
Reactions and response
2003). Reactions and response: Muslim students' experiences on New York city campuses post 9/11. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 271-283
An Exploratory Comparison of Disasters, Riots and Terrorist Acts
One question that emerged following the 11 September attacks was how to categorise and classify the event within existing disaster and conflict-event research frameworks. A decade ago, Quarantelli (1993) compared findings on the similarities and differences between consensus- and conflict-type events by illustrating a conceptual distinction between the two. In this paper, this discussionis expanded to include terrorist attacks by offering compari…
The social psychology of public response to warnings of a nuclear power plant accident
Becoming Muslim
Journal Article Becoming Muslim: The Development of a Religious Identity Get access Lori Peek Lori Peek Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 3, Fall 2005, Pages 215–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153097 Published: 01 October 2005
Reactions and response
2003). Reactions and response: Muslim students' experiences on New York city campuses post 9/11. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 271-283
Using focus groups
The purpose of this article is to examine focus groups as a qualitative research method. We describe and evaluate the use of focus groups based on three separate research projects: a study of teachers, parents, and children at two urban daycare centers; a study of the responses of second-generation Muslim Americans to the events of September 11; and a collaborative project on the experiences of children and youth following Hurricane Katrina. By e…
What Methods Do Social Scientists Use to Study Disasters? An Analysis of the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network
Methods matter. They influence what we know and who we come to know about in the context of hazards and disasters. Research methods are of profound importance to the scholarly advancement of the field and, accordingly, a growing number of publications focus on research methods and ethical practices associated with the study of extreme events. Still, notable gaps exist. The National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research …
An Exploratory Comparison of Disasters, Riots and Terrorist Acts
One question that emerged following the 11 September attacks was how to categorise and classify the event within existing disaster and conflict-event research frameworks. A decade ago, Quarantelli (1993) compared findings on the similarities and differences between consensus- and conflict-type events by illustrating a conceptual distinction between the two. In this paper, this discussionis expanded to include terrorist attacks by offering compari…
Disaster Hits Home
The authors explored individual and family adjustment processes among parents ( n = 30) and children ( n = 55) who were displaced to Colorado after Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 23 families, this article offers an inductive model of displaced family adjustment. Four stages of family adjustment are presented in the model: (a) family unity stage, (b) prioritizing safety stage (parents) and missing home stage (children), (c)…
Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data
Researchers across disciplines have long sought to collect 'perishable data' in the context of disasters. Yet, this data type is neither consistently defined nor discussed in specific detail in the literature. To address this gap, this paper defines perishable data and provides guidance on ways to improve both how it is collected and shared. Here, perishable data is conceptualised as highly transient data that may degrade in quality, be irrevocab…
The collective method
This article conceptualizes the collective method to describe how 12 scholars worked collaboratively to study the effects of displacement following Hurricane Katrina. The collective method is defined as an integrated, reflexive process of research design and implementation in which a diverse group of scholars studying a common phenomenon-yet working on independent projects-engage in repeated theoretical and methodological discussions to improve (…
Studying Displacement
The social psychology of public response to warnings of a nuclear power plant accident
Reactions and response
2003). Reactions and response: Muslim students' experiences on New York city campuses post 9/11. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 271-283
An Exploratory Comparison of Disasters, Riots and Terrorist Acts
One question that emerged following the 11 September attacks was how to categorise and classify the event within existing disaster and conflict-event research frameworks. A decade ago, Quarantelli (1993) compared findings on the similarities and differences between consensus- and conflict-type events by illustrating a conceptual distinction between the two. In this paper, this discussionis expanded to include terrorist attacks by offering compari…
Poverty and Disasters in the United States
Becoming Muslim
Journal Article Becoming Muslim: The Development of a Religious Identity Get access Lori Peek Lori Peek Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 3, Fall 2005, Pages 215–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153097 Published: 01 October 2005
Children and Disasters
This comprehensive overview of the literature on children and disasters argues that scholars and practitioners should more carefully consider the experiences of children themselves. As the frequency and intensity of disaster events increase around the globe, children are among those most at risk for the negative effects of disaster. Children are psychologically vulnerable and may develop post-traumatic stress disorder or related symptoms; are phy…
Hurricane Katrina
Katrina” was initially the code‐name given to a powerful hurricane that gathered force out in the Atlantic in the summer of 2005, moved across the southern tip of Florida, and then landed with a vengeance on the US Gulf Coast. The reason “Katrina” has become a prominent name in modern history and has earned a place in this encyclopedia, however, has to do with its aftereffects. Hurricanes are measured by the velocity of their winds, the height of…
Using focus groups
The purpose of this article is to examine focus groups as a qualitative research method. We describe and evaluate the use of focus groups based on three separate research projects: a study of teachers, parents, and children at two urban daycare centers; a study of the responses of second-generation Muslim Americans to the events of September 11; and a collaborative project on the experiences of children and youth following Hurricane Katrina. By e…
Children With Disabilities in the Context of Disaster
An estimated 200 million children worldwide experience various forms of disability. This critical review extrapolates from existing literature in 2 distinct areas of scholarship: one on individuals with disabilities in disaster, and the other on children in disaster. The extant literature suggests that various factors may contribute to the physical, psychological, and educational vulnerability of children with disabilities in disaster, including …
Disaster Hits Home
The authors explored individual and family adjustment processes among parents ( n = 30) and children ( n = 55) who were displaced to Colorado after Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 23 families, this article offers an inductive model of displaced family adjustment. Four stages of family adjustment are presented in the model: (a) family unity stage, (b) prioritizing safety stage (parents) and missing home stage (children), (c)…
Displaced
Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrina’s landfall. New Orleans, a city of 500,000, was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding. Katrina survivors eventually scattered across all fifty states, and tens of thousands still remain displaced. Some are desperate to return to the Gulf Coast but cannot find the means. Other…
Disaster Social Service Volunteers
This article presents the results of an evaluation of a volunteer training program that prepares participants to enter postdisaster settings to work with affected children and families. The evaluation, which uses a knowledge-skills-attitudes (KSA) approach, draws on the results of a telephone survey with 46 randomly selected program volunteers. Volunteers reported statistically significant knowledge gains in the three primary training areas: prog…
Health Barriers to Learning
This article summarizes the results from a 2013 online survey with 408 principals and assistant principals in New York City public elementary and middle schools. The survey assessed three primary areas: health issues in the school, health issues perceived as barriers to learning for affected students, and resources needed to address these barriers. Eighteen of the 22 health conditions listed in the survey were considered a moderate or serious iss…
Studying Displacement
Scp>H urricane K atrina
This entry focuses on Hurricane Katrina, a powerful storm that made landfall on August 29, 2005. The hurricane generated one of the most deadly and destructive disasters in US history, and it still stands as the most costly natural catastrophe on record. Katrina affected approximately 90,000 square miles of land and inundated 80 percent of New Orleans after the levee system surrounding the city failed. Residents of coastal communities and cities …
The collective method
This article conceptualizes the collective method to describe how 12 scholars worked collaboratively to study the effects of displacement following Hurricane Katrina. The collective method is defined as an integrated, reflexive process of research design and implementation in which a diverse group of scholars studying a common phenomenon-yet working on independent projects-engage in repeated theoretical and methodological discussions to improve (…
Weathering Katrina
A Framework for Convergence Research in the Hazards and Disaster Field
The goal of this article is twofold: to clarify the tenets of convergence research and to motivate such research in the hazards and disaster field. Here, convergence research is defined as an approach to knowledge production and action that involves diverse teams working together in novel ways—transcending disciplinary and organizational boundaries—to address vexing social, economic, environmental, and technical challenges in an effort to reduce …
Global List and Interactive Web Map of University-Based Hazards and Disaster Research Centers
This paper describes a novel data set and an accompanying online listing and interactive web map that displays university-based hazards and disaster research centers globally. To date, this initiative has led to the identification of 360 academic hazards and disaster research centers across the five major United Nations geographic regions, including 23 in Africa, 183 in the Americas, 94 in Asia, 37 in Europe, and 23 in Oceania. This web-based ini…
Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina, Flood
In early October 2016, Hurricane Matthew crossed North Carolina as a Category 1 storm, with some areas receiving 0.38–0.46 m (15–18 in.) of rainfall on already saturated soil. The NIST-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning teamed with researchers from NIST’s Engineering Laboratory (Disaster and Failure Studies Program, Community Resilience Group, and the Applied Economics Office) to conduct a field study focused on the impact…
What Methods Do Social Scientists Use to Study Disasters? An Analysis of the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network
Methods matter. They influence what we know and who we come to know about in the context of hazards and disasters. Research methods are of profound importance to the scholarly advancement of the field and, accordingly, a growing number of publications focus on research methods and ethical practices associated with the study of extreme events. Still, notable gaps exist. The National Science Foundation-funded Social Science Extreme Events Research …
Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Incorporating Mental Health Research into Disaster Risk Reduction
There is an expansive and growing body of literature that examines the mental health consequences of disasters and large-scale emergencies. There is a need, however, for more explicit incorporation of mental health research into disaster risk reduction practices. Training and education programs can serve as a bridge to connect academic mental health research and the work of disaster risk reduction practitioners. This article describes the develop…
Handbook of Environmental Sociology
The Continuing Storm
More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by any measure one of the most damaging storms in American history. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, rev…
Disaster Management and Resilience (23 works) · Political science (23 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Disaster Response and Management (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Engineering (11 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Medicine (9 works)