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Biography

Dr. Erin R. Eldridge is an Assistant Professor of Emergency and Disaster Management at WCU. She is an anthropologist, with specialties in environmental and disaster anthropology. Her research on environmental issues and disasters has been published in anthropological and interdisciplinary journals, including the <i>Journal of Political Ecology</i>, <i>Conflict and Society</i>, <i>Qualitative Research</i>, <i>Anthropology Today</i>, <i>Human Organization</i>, and the <i>Journal of Disaster Studies</i>.

Education

• Ph D, University of Tennessee Knoxville
• Ph D, University of Tennessee Knoxville
• MA, University of Tennessee Knoxville
• BS, Tennessee Tech University

Teaching Interests

Dr. Eldridge has been teaching and guiding university students in a variety of settings for many years, including science laboratories, online learning, small discussion-based classes, large lecture courses, and through advising and mentoring. She has taught in a range of fields, including anthropology, biology, global studies, and emergency and disaster management. Example course topics include environmental justice and disasters, environmental anthropology, anthropology of development, humanitarian response and disaster relief.

Research Interests

Dr. Eldridge's scholarship focuses on political ecological concerns, structural violence, bureaucracy, and socio-cultural dimensions of disasters. She also occasionally dabbles in ethnomusicology and observational film. Dr. Eldridge has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa, Central America, and the Appalachian South. More recent research focuses on disaster preparedness, response, relief, and recovery in the Southeastern United States.