The Hurricane Katrina Research Hub is a platform for sharing information and promoting collaboration among social scientists working on issues surrounding Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Here you will find a wide array of information related to Hurricane Katrina, including current social science research, events, funding opportunities, news coverage, and other resources. You are encouraged not only to draw on our extensive Resource Database, but also to contribute to its expanding map of people, institutions, networks, and resources in working on the Katrina disaster.

Hurricane Katrina produced not only a humanitarian catastrophe but also a dramatic and ongoing failure of the social contract that binds Americans together. Social science plays a crucial role in addressing this dual disaster, from understanding governmental responses, to planning for rebuilding and resettlement, to providing a deeper understanding of the ways in which large scale events shape individual and group experience. This Hub is part of an effort to facilitate these processes.

What's New

• Kai T. Erikson, Chair of the SSRC Task Force on Katrina, discusses the continuing effects of Katrina in "Katrina, the Mighty - and Unending - Storm." Other discussions can be found here.