Elizabeth Fussell is a sociologist and demographer whose research focuses on environmental drivers of migration and social inequalities in migration, health, and other post-disaster outcomes. She is an affiliate of PSTC and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES). Fussell is currently investigating the long-term effects of the disaster following Hurricane Katrina on the residential mobility, health, and well-being of the residents of New Orleans using innovative methods and datasets in the Federal Statistical Research Data Center. She also studies the effects of hurricanes and other exogenous shocks on migration and internal migration systems in the United States, with a new focus on Puerto Rico. Her research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Population & Environment from 2017-2024. She is currently co-faculty director of the Equitable Climate Futures Initiative at Brown University and leads the Capacity Building Core for the Climate, Health, and Aging Innovation and Research Solutions for Communities (CHAIRS-C), a National Institute of Aging-funded climate change and health research center.
DeWaard, Jack, Din, Alexander M., McConnell, Kathryn, Fussell, Elizabeth. "Population Change in Wildfire-Affected Areas in the United States: Evidence from U.S. Postal Service Residential Address Data." Population Research and Policy Review, vol. 43, no. 4, 2024. |
McConnell K, Fussell E, DeWaard J, Whitaker S, Curtis KJ, St Denis L, Balch J, Price K. "Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the U.S." Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024, pp. 6631. |
DeWaard J, Fussell E, Curtis KJ, Whitaker SD, McConnell K, Price K, Soto M, Castro CA. "Migration as a Vector of Economic Losses From Disaster-Affected Areas in the United States." Demography, vol. 60, no. 1, 2023, pp. 173-199. |
DeWaard J, Hauer M, Fussell E, Curtis KJ, Whitaker SD, McConnell K, Price K, Egan-Robertson D, Soto M, Castro CA. "User Beware: Concerning Findings from the Post 2011-2012 U.S. Internal Revenue Service Migration Data." Popul Res Policy Rev, vol. 41, no. 2, 2022, pp. 437-448. |
DeWaard J, Fussell E, Curtis KJ, Ha JT. "Changing Spatial Interconnectivity during the "Great American Migration Slowdown": A Decomposition of Intercounty Migration Rates, 1990-2010." Population, Space and Place, vol. 26, no. 1, 2020. |
Curtis, Katherine J., DeWaard, Jack, Fussell, Elizabeth, Rosenfeld, Rachel A. "Differential Recovery Migration across the Rural–Urban Gradient: Minimal and Short‐Term Population Gains for Rural Disaster‐Affected Gulf Coast Counties." Rural Sociology, 2019. |
Hauer, Mathew E., Fussell, Elizabeth, Mueller, Valerie, Burkett, Maxine, Call, Maia, Abel, Kali, McLeman, Robert, Wrathall, David. "Sea-level rise and human migration." Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp. 28-39. |
Fussell, Elizabeth. "Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century by Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney, and Annie M. Gibson. 240 pp.; maps, diagrs., index. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press. $32.50 (paper),." Geographical Review, vol. 108, no. 4, 2018, pp. 631-633. |
Fussell E, Delp L, Riley K, Chávez S, Valenzuela A Jr. "Implications of Social and Legal Status on Immigrants' Health in Disaster Zones." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 108, no. 12, 2018, pp. 1617-1620. |
Zhang, Hong, Fussell, Elizabeth. "Strategic Gender Egalitarianism in Rural China: The Impacts of Husbands’ Migration on Gender Relations." American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 61, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1192-1213. |
DeWaard J, Curtis KJ, Fussell E. "Population recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: Exploring the potential role of stage migration in migration systems." Popul Environ, vol. 37, no. 4, 2016, pp. 449-463. |
Fussell, Elizabeth, Curran, Sara R., Dunbar, Matthew D., Babb, Michael A., Thompson, Luanne, Meijer-Irons, Jacqueline. "Weather-Related Hazards and Population Change." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 669, no. 1, 2016, pp. 146-167. |
DeWaard, Jack, Curtis, Katherine J., Fussell, Elizabeth. "Population recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: exploring the potential role of stage migration in migration systems." Popul Environ, vol. 37, no. 4, 2015, pp. 449-463. |
Curtis, Katherine J., Fussell, Elizabeth, DeWaard, Jack. "Recovery Migration After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Spatial Concentration and Intensification in the Migration System." Demography, vol. 52, no. 4, 2015, pp. 1269-1293. |
Fussell, E. "The Long-Term Recovery of New Orleans' Population After Hurricane Katrina." American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 59, no. 10, 2015, pp. 1231-1245. |
Fussell E, Harris E. "Homeownership and Housing Displacement after Hurricane Katrina among Low-Income African-American Mothers in New Orleans." Social science quarterly, vol. 95, no. 4, 2014, pp. 1086-1100. |
Fussell, Elizabeth, Hunter, Lori M., Gray, Clark L. "Measuring the environmental dimensions of human migration: The demographer's toolkit." Global Environmental Change, vol. 28, 2014, pp. 182-191. |
Fussell E, Curtis KJ, Dewaard J. "Recovery Migration to the City of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: A Migration Systems Approach." Popul Environ, vol. 35, no. 3, 2014, pp. 305-322. |
Fussell E, Lowe SR. "The impact of housing displacement on the mental health of low-income parents after Hurricane Katrina." Social Science & Medicine, vol. 113, 2014, pp. 137-44. |
Fussell E. "Warmth of the Welcome: Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy." Annu. Rev. Sociol., vol. 40, 2014, pp. 479-498. |
Paxson C, Fussell E, Rhodes J, Waters M. "Five years later: recovery from post traumatic stress and psychological distress among low-income mothers affected by Hurricane Katrina." Social Science & Medicine, vol. 74, no. 2, 2012, pp. 150-157. |
Fussell E, Sastry N, Vanlandingham M. "Race, socioeconomic status, and return migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina." Popul Environ, vol. 31, no. 1-3, 2010, pp. 20-42. |
Rhodes, Jean, Chan, Christian, Paxson, Christina, Rouse, Cecilia Elena, Waters, Mary, Fussell, Elizabeth. "The impact of hurricane Katrina on the mental and physical health of low-income parents in New Orleans." The American journal of orthopsychiatry, vol. 80, no. 2, 2010, pp. 237-47. |
Fussell E, Massey DS. "The limits to cumulative causation: international migration from Mexican urban areas." Demography, vol. 41, no. 1, 2004, pp. 151-71. |
Year | Degree | Institution |
---|---|---|
1998 | PhD | University of Wisconsin at Madison |
1992 | MS | University of Wisconsin at Madison |
1988 | BA | Bryn Mawr College |
National Research Service Award, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development | University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center | 1999-2001 | Phildadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University
Institute at Brown on Environment and Society, Brown University
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Brown University
SOC 1100 - Introductory Statistics for Social Research |