Elizabeth Fussell is an American sociologist and Professor of Population Studies and Environment and Society at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

. Since 2017, she is the editor-in-chief of the academic journal ''

Population and Environment ''Population and Environment'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the reciprocal links between population, natural resources, and the natural environment. The journal was established in 1978 as the '' Journal of Popu ...

''. She has researched population change in response to hurricanes, notably in

New Orleans New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...

after

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. Fussell received her B.A. in sociology with a concentration in Latin American studies from

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh language, Welsh: ) is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as a ...

and M.S. and Ph.D. in sociology from the

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. She was an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at

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from 2001 to 2007. From 2009 to 2014, she was associate professor in the Sociology Department at

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Selected publications

* Fussell, Elizabeth. "Constructing New Orleans, Constructing Race: A Population History of New Orleans." ''The Journal of American History'', 94(3), 2007, pp. 846–55. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/25095147. * Fussell Elizabeth. "The Long Term Recovery of New Orleans' Population after Hurricane Katrina." ''The American Behavioral Scientist'', 59(10), 2015, pp. 1231–1245. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764215591181

References

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