Carl A. Brasseaux
Professor, History and Director, CLS and CCET
brasseaux@louisiana.edu |
Monograph co-authored with Ivor van Heerden of LSU on the history of hurricanes in Louisiana. |
Robert Buckman, advisor
UL-Lafayette chapter of Society of Professional Journalists
rtb2361@louisiana.edu |
Vérité, student publication, Summer 2005 issue, dedicated to Hurricane Katrina. Click here to download this issue (2.2 MB). |
UL-Lafayette School of Art and Design
rebuild@louisiana.edu |
Rebuild Louisiana Competition: The goal of this competition is to project strategies and ideas to ease the distress of the evacuees, aid the rescuers and relief workers and preserve, rebuild, redesign, re-imagine and protect the post-Katrina/Rita environment of the Gulf Coast. |
HIST 452 Section 001
Oral History Principles and Practices
carriker@louisiana.edu |
A systematic examination of oral history fundamentals and application of skills led by Dr. Robert Carriker, this spring semester offering will encourage collected interviews to focus on the recent hurricanes. Section ID: 183129; TR 9:30-10:45; HLG 525. Permission from instructor required to schedule this course. |
W. Geoff Gjertson, AIA
Assistant Professor and
Co-Director of the Building Institute
gjertson@louisiana.edu |
Gjertson is serving on the parish's Housing Advisory Committee, dealing with
housing issues after the hurricanes, as well
as a committee with Goodwill, the school board and the Asoc. General Contractors
to establish a construction school in Lafayette to address the urgent need
for skilled construction workers. Finally, he is serving on the State
Architect's Selection Board which is hearing proposals for emergency
professional services in the wake of the hurricanes. |
Education and the Hurricane
mnicolas@louisiana.edu |
The two sections of English 101 composed solely of student evacuees are contributing their experiences through written assignments and interviews with Melissa Nicolas, Director of Freshman English and Director of the Writing Center. This oral history collection focuses primarily on the students' evacuation stories and reflections on their lives after the storm. Nicolas is also collecting faculty reflections on the student evacuees. |
Return or Resettle:
Analysis of the Decision-Making Process by People Displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
jhenry@louisiana.edu or tys5825@louisiana.edu |
This project aims to describe and analyze the decision-making process to return or resettle by persons displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita along the Gulf Coast. How do displaced persons make sense of the whole chain of events and chart a course to reconstruct their lives? Preliminary evidence suggests that expectations based on common sense or the rationality of normalcy may not be supported by data and rigorous analysis. In addition, it has also become clear that the aftermath of the hurricanes reaches far and wide along the Gulf COast, impacting communities, businesses, and families which suffered no direct damage from the storms. Data come from non-directive interviews with a sample of the evacuee population. Two main objectives are pursued: (1) to gain knowledge of the ongoing process in order to factor in the input of the people concerned into the rebuilding effort, and (2) to share this information with public entities and large employers so it contributes to their own decision-making process.
Jacques Henry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Associate Professor
Sara LeMenestrel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, Senior Researcher
Toni Sims, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Assistant Professor |
Bob Gramling
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology and CCET Fellow
gramling@louisiana.edu
George Wooddell
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology and CCET Fellow
wooddell@louisiana.edu |
Louisiana Governor's Applied Coastal Research and Development Program and DNR sponsored grant anticipating socioeconomic effects of Louisiana’s coastal restoration projects pre- and post-Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. |
