Profile
Carla Prater is Associate Director of the Hazards Reduction & Recovery Center at Texas
A&M University, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and
Secretary/Treasurer of the International Research Committee on Disasters. Educated at
Associação Escola Graduada de São Paulo in Brazil where she grew up, she went on to
receive her BA in Modern Languages at Pepperdine University, and later earned her MS
in Urban Planning and Ph.D. in Political Science from Texas A&M. Her research has
included work on disaster response, hurricane and tsunami evacuation, disaster recovery
and mitigation planning. She has taught courses and conducted research in Brazil,
Taiwan, Turkey, and India, and has presented papers and participated in workshops in
Turkey, Italy, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama and Taiwan. She has
co-authored numerous articles and technical reports, and is co-author of a standard
emergency management textbook published by Wiley & Sons.
Ph.D., Political Science, Texas A&M University, 1999;
M.S., Urban and Regional Planning, Texas A&M University, 1993; B.A.,
Foreign Languages, Pepperdine University, 1975....[more]
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