Adam Straub

Adam Straub

Adam Straub
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Adam Straub

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Biography

Recent Courses Taught

  •   Classical Sociological Theory
  •   Sociology of Disasters/Crises
  •   Environment, Policy, & Society

Research Interests 

  •   Natural and Technological Hazards
  •   Hazard Risk
  •   Social Vulnerability and Resilience

Selected Publications

  • Straub, Adam M. 2024. “Fiona and Atlantic Canada: media framing of hazard risk in the Anthropocene.” Disasters. e12641. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12641 
  • Straub, Adam M. 2021. “‘Natural Disasters don’t kill people, governments kill people:’ Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico—recreancy, and ‘risk society.’” Natural Hazards 105(2): 1603-1621.
Straub, Adam M., Benjamin J. Gray, Liesel A. Ritchie, and Duane A. Gill. 2020. “Cultivating Disaster Resilience in Rural Oklahoma: Community Disenfranchisement and Relational Aspects of Social Capital.” Journal of Rural Studies 73:105-113.