Citation
(2003), "Awards for Excellence", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 12 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2003.07312daa.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Awards for Excellence
Henry W. Fischer IIIMillersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, Pennsylvania, USA
is the recipient of the journal's Outstanding Paper Award for Excellence for his paper
"Terrorism and 11 September 2001: does the 'behavioral response to disaster' model fit?"
which appeared in Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 11 No. 2, 2002
Dr Fischer holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Delaware (1986) a product of the Disaster Research Center. He currently teaches and conducts research at Millersville University of Pennsylvania (USA) which is one of the 14 institutions which comprise the State System of Higher Education. His primary research focus is on the behavioral and organizational response to disaster. His on-going research agenda has resulted in the presentation of 36 research papers at regional, national and international professional meetings, the publication of 16 scholarly journal articles, a monograph entitled Hurricane Gilbert: The Media's Creation of the Storm of the Century which was published by the Natural Hazards Center of the University of Colorado and three books including his 1998 2nd edition of Behavioral Response to Disaster: Fact Versus Fiction & Its Perpetuation - the Sociology of Disaster (published by University Press of America). He has also written a white paper entitled Behavioral Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Sociological Implications which is used in conjunction with the table-top training exercises being conducted in the US metropolitan areas as part of the Department of Defense Domestic Preparedness Program. He also serves as a consultant to the US Domestic Preparedness Program. He is an active member of the American Sociological Association and the International Sociological Association's International Research Committee on Disaster (RC 39). He serves as the editor of UnScheduled Events, the RC 39 newsletter, as well as editor of the new online journal Contemporary Disaster Review. He has recently appeared on both CNN and MSNBC to discuss panic behavior.