Education
B.A., University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, 1990
M.A., University of New Mexico, 1993
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2000

Interests
Teaching Interest: Disaster Management, Homeland Security Policy and Administration, Policy Analysis, Program Evaluation, Research Methods, Environmental and Regulatory Policy

Research Interest: Disaster preparedness both for individuals and organizations, especially in the area of disaster evacuation, Homeland security policy and its relationship to emergency management practices, Risk perception and risk assessment in the policy process, Regulation, particularly environmental policy, Distributional politics and policy

Employed by LSU since
7/1/2008


Biographical Summary
Brian Gerber holds a PhD in political science from SUNY at Stony Brook. He has published nearly two dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on issues such as homeland security policy and disaster preparedness in the U.S., environmental regulatory policy, and the impact of institutional structure on bureaucratic behavior and policy outputs. His work can be found in journals such as Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Policy Studies Journal, Political Research Quarterly and Urban Affairs Review. He has served as principal investigator on multiple research projects funded by organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety. He has extensive experience in policy and program evaluation for state and local government agencies, has worked with state-level government on catastrophic incident planning and is currently leading a major national study examining ways to improve assistance to persons with disabilities during disaster evacuations.