Lori Peek

Lori Peek is director of the Natural Hazards Center and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is principal investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded CONVERGE initiative and author of Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11 (Temple University Press, 2010), coeditor of Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora (University of Texas Press, 2012), and coauthor of Children of Katrina (University of Texas Press, 2015).

Essays

Mobilizing social science for the public good.

The Social Science Research Council, an independent, international nonprofit, mobilizes necessary knowledge for the public good by supporting scholars worldwide, generating new research across disciplines, and linking researchers with policymakers and citizens.

Lori Peek

What Kids Can Do: Paying Attention to Children’s Capacities in the Pandemic

Mobilizing social science for the public good.

Sign up for Items & Issues, the SSRC's monthly newsletter