Brenda Phillips Email and Phone Number

Brenda Phillips, Ph.D., Dean Emerita, served as the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Interim Dean of the Raclin School of the Arts, and Professor of Sociology at Indiana University South Bend from 2018-2023. She has served also as an Associate Dean, Graduate Program Coordinator (Fire and Emergency Management), and Founding Director (Women’s Studies). Dr. Phillips has served as a subject matter expert for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Office of the Federal Coordinator of Meteorology, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Council on Disability on issues surrounding disasters.She is an author of Business Continuity Planning (lead author), Disaster Recovery (original author), Introduction to Emergency Management (lead author), Disaster Volunteers, Qualitative Disaster Research and Mennonite Disaster Service. She co-edited Social Vulnerability to Disasters and Women and Disasters. Her published research, funded by the National Science Foundation, can be found in a variety of journals including the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Disaster Prevention, Disasters, Humanity and Society, the Journal of Emergency Management, Natural Hazards Review, and Environmental Hazards. Dr. Phillips earned the Blanchard Award for excellence in emergency management education and the Myers Award for work on the effects of disasters on women. She was inducted into the International Women’s Hall of Fame for Emergency Management and Homeland Security in 2013.Dr. Phillips has consulted in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Costa Rica, and Australia on emergency management programs. An energetic and engaging speaker, she has given invited and key note presentations on socially vulnerable populations in the U.S., Costa Rica, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Canada, Germany, the People's Republic of China, England, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand.