Dr. Gary Webb is Professor and Chair of Emergency Management and Disaster Science. Prior to coming to UNT, he was a faculty member in the sociology department and the Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events at Oklahoma State University. He has also held research positions at the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center.
Dr. Ron Timmons teaches in the undergraduate Emergency Administration and Planning program in Emergency Management and Disaster Science and is the Internship Coordinator. Prior to coming to UNT, he was a director at the city of Plano, serving in emergency management and public safety communications department head roles. His duties included designation as the emergency management coordinator for the Metroplex city of 270,000 people.
Dr. Siebeneck is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Science. A geographer by training, she has taught EADP courses such as Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness, Capstone in Emergency Management, Images of Disaster in Film and Media, International Disasters, and Intro to Emergency Management. Her teaching and research interests include hazards, evacuation and return-entry processes, risk perception and risk communication, emergency management, Geographic Information Science (GIS) and spatial analysis.
Dr. Schumann is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Science. A human geographer by training, Dr. Schumann’s research interests include community recovery, social vulnerability, cultural memory, risk perception, and mitigation. He uses a range of innovative research methods, like photovoice and participatory GIS, to understand the perspectives of disaster survivors and community stakeholders.
Dr. Mary Nelan is a member of the Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Science. Before joining the faculty at the Univeristy of North Texas, Dr. Nelan earned her Ph.D. at the University of Delaware in Sociology. During her time in Delaware she held the position of research assistant at the Disaster Research Center. Dr. Nelan’s interest in disasters began during a response volunteer trip to Haiti in May 2010. It was then that she started to research convergence behavior in disasters.
