Elizabeth A. Albright, an assistant professor of the practice of environmental science at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, engages in research that focuses on community-level learning in response to extreme events, as well as the distribution of risks across and within communities. She currently studies local-level response to flood disasters in South Carolina and Colorado, and access to local-level water infrastructure in Alabama. Her work, funded by the National Science Foundation, has won awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA).