Dennis Wenger: “A History of Disaster Research”

Dennis Wenger is Former Program Director, Infrastructure Systems Management and Extreme Events, National Science Foundation.
Co-hosted with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Wenger was a professor from Texas A&M University from 1989–2007. At Texas A&M, Wenger was a Professor of Urban and Regional Science and an Adjunct Professor of Sociology. He was also the Founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center. Before his arrival at Texas A&M, Wenger was on the faculty of the University of Delaware where he served as co-director of the Disaster Research Center from 1984–1989.

For more information, see his biography page on the National Science Foundation website.