Telephone: 352.392.2253 ext: 251
Email: aros@ufl.edu
Professor website: http://web.anthro.ufl.edu/faculty/Oliver-Smith.shtml

Interests
Displaced people, disasters, Andes, Caribbean, Latin America

Programs
Cultural Anthropology

Personal Statement
Oliver-Smith has done anthropological research and consultation on issues relating to disasters and involuntary resettlement in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s. He has served on the executive boards of the National Association of Practicing Anthropologists (NAPA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) and on the Social Sciences Committee of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. He is a member of the editorial boards of Environmental Disasters and Desastres y Sociedad. His work on disasters has focused on issues of post-disaster social organization, including class/race/ethnicity/gender based patterns of differential aid distribution, social consensus and conflict, grief and mourning issues and social mobilization of community-based reconstruction efforts.

Representative Publications
Oliver-Smith, A. 2006. Disasters and Forced Migration in the 21st Century. Social Science Research Council: Katrina Research Hub. http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Oliver-Smith/

Hoffman, S.M., and A. Oliver-Smith. 2002. Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Oliver-Smith, A. and S.M. Hoffman (eds). 1999. The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective. New York & London: Routledge.

Oliver-Smith, A. 1996. Anthropological Research on Hazards and Disasters. Annual Review of Anthropology. 25: 303-328.