Rate My Professor Nicole Dash

Dash's research specializations encompass disaster research, including risk perception, evacuation decision-making, social vulnerability, housing recovery, and hazard mitigation, with a focus on hurricanes and coastal hazards. Currently, she collaborates on an NSF-funded project on Native American community disaster preparedness and contributes to the National Institute of Building Sciences' Mitigation Saves 2, integrating social costs like reduced PTSD into benefit-cost analyses, affirming a four-to-one savings ratio for mitigation investments. Key publications include "Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disaster" in the Handbook of Disaster Research (2007 and 2018 editions, with W.G. Peacock, Y. Zhang, et al.), chapters on "Social Class" and "Race and Ethnicity" in Social Vulnerability to Disasters (2009 and 2013), "Evacuation Decision Making and Behavioral Responses: Individual and Household" (Natural Hazards Review, 2007, with H. Gladwin), and "Lasting Effects of Hurricane Andrew on a Working-Class Community" (2007). She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, State of Florida, and IHRC, and honors such as UNT Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowships (2005, 2006) and a nomination for Exemplary Online Teacher (2012). Dash has chaired and served on numerous dissertation and master's thesis committees.