Dr. Gregory V. Button, Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 1992, Anthropology, Brandeis University
B.S. 1972, Anthropology, The State University of New York at New Paltz

Research Interests

Communities in Crisis (Disasters), Environmental Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Development, Policy, Bioterrrorism, Coastal Communities, Climate Change, Anthropology & the Media.

Selected Publications

2008 Disasters and Development- Induced Displacement: The Case of Hurricane Katrina. In, Development and Disasters, edited by Anthony Oliver-Smith. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for American Research. Forthcoming.

2007 Anthony Oliver-Smith (second author), Disaster, Displacement And Employment: Distortion in Labor Markets in Post-Katrina Reconstruction. In, Walnut, CA: Disaster Capitalism, edited by Schuller & Nandini, Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.

2006 Voices from the Astrodome and Beyond: Evacuee Counter-Narratives. In Learning From Catastrophe, Boulder Colorado, edited by the Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado.

2005 With Anthony Oliver-Smith Forced Migration as an Index of Vulnerability in Hurricane Katrina. For the 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Meeting-Expert Working Group on Vulnerability, October 11-14, 2005, UNU-Bonn, Germany. Forthcoming monograph.

2002 Popular Media Re-Framing of Man-Made Disasters. A Cautionary Tale. In, Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster, edited by S. Hoffman & A. Oliver-Smith. School of American Research Press.
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