Kai T. Erikson

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Kai T. Erikson (born 1931) served as the 76th President of the American Sociological Association.[1] He is an authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events.[2]

Born in Vienna, Erikson earned a PhD at the University of Chicago and joined the faculty at Yale (1966), where he holds the title William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies.[2] He edited the Yale Review from 1979 to 1989.[2]

Erikson has studied disasters including the nuclear fallout in the Marshall Islands in 1954, the Buffalo Creek flood in West Virginia in 1972, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979, the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, and the genocide in Yugoslavia that took place from 1992 to 1995.[2]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance
  • Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood
  • A New Species of Trouble: Explorations in Disaster, Trauma, and Community

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kai T. Erickson. American Sociological Association (2006-06-13).
  2. ^ a b c d Eminent sociologist Kai Erikson to speak. Kenyon College (2005-01-31).
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