Anthony Oliver-Smith is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is also affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies at that institution. He has done anthropological research and consultation on issues relating to disasters and involuntary resettlement in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s. He has served on the executive boards of the National Association of Practicing Anthropologists (NAPA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) and on the Social Sciences Committee of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. He is a member of the editorial boards of Environmental Disasters and Desastres y Sociedad. His work on disasters has focused on issues of post-disaster social organization, including class/race/ethnicity/gender based patterns of differential aid distribution, social consensus and conflict, grief and mourning issues and social mobilization of community-based reconstruction efforts.