Jennifer Lawrence

Education

Dual Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Modern Languages and Literature, Christopher Newport University
Master of Science in International Political Economy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ph.D. in Social, Ethical, and Cultural Thought, Virginia Tech

Biography

Jennifer Lawrence, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning. Lawrence’s research centers on disaster resilience and health. She is currently working with the National Institute for Standards and Technology Community Resilience Program on developing metrics for resilience indicators to support community decision-making and program evaluation. She is also an Early Career Research Fellow for Human Health and Community Resilience with the National Academies Gulf Research Program. Her work has been published in numerous book chapters and articles. She also has co-edited two books, The Resilience Machine (2018) and Biopolitical Disaster (2017).

Prior to joining UVA, she was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics & Policy in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Virginia Tech. She remains affiliated faculty at the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability at Virginia Tech where she teaches courses on sustainability.