Jenniffer M. Santos-Hernández, Ph.D.

2013-present. Assistant Research Professor, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras. Courses taught:

• PLAN 6068: Disasters, Emergency Management, and Society. Salvador Padilla Escabí Graduate School of Planning. Fall 2014 and Spring 2018.
• PLAN 6110: Migration and Marginality. Salvador Padilla Escabí Graduate School of Planning. Spring 2016 and Fall 2017.
• PLAN 6995: Social Planning and Sustainabilty Transitions Policies. Salvador Padilla Escabí Graduate School of Planning. Spring 2017.
• PLAN 6586: Social Analysis Techniques. Salvador Padilla Escabí Graduate School of Planning. Fall 2015 and Fall 2016.
• SOCI 3245: Sociological Principles. Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Spring 2016.
  
• SOCI 3267: Research Techniques in Sociology. Department of Sociology and Anthropology. College of Social Sciences. Spring 2015 and Fall 2015.
• CIAM 6910: Community Development and Water Management Research. Department of Environmental Sciences. College of Natural Sciences. Spring 2015.
• CIAM 8115: Human Dimension of Environmental Change. Department of Environmental Sciences. College of Natural Sciences. Fall 2014. 

Guest Lecture, Disasters are fundamentally social processes: Social Vulnerability in Puerto Rico. Facilitated in the Natural Hazards Course (CIFI 4995) of Dr. Lorna Jaramillo. November 2013. University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras.

Guest Lecture. The Rationalization of Emergency Management and Social Vulnerability to Disasters in Puerto Rico: Towards a Dynamic Approach. Facilitated in the graduate seminar on Disasters, Vulnerability, and Development offered by Dr. Tricia Wachtendorf. April 2013. University of Delaware. Newark, DE.  

Instructor, Department of Sociology. Fall 2012. Widener University. Chester, PA.

Guest Lecture, Bureaucracies, Communities, and Social Vulnerability to Disasters: Integrating Perspectives in Emergency Management. Department of Political Science Colloquium Series. March, 2012. Oklahoma State University.  

Guest Lecture, Quick Response Research: The 2010 Earthquake in Haiti. Facilitated in the graduate qualitative methods course of Dr. Brenda Phillips. February 15, 2010. Oklahoma State University. 

Instructor, Sociology 201: Introduction to Sociology. 2010 Winter Session. University of Delaware.Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice.

Instructor, Curso Intensivo sobre Acercamientos Teóricos e Investigación Científica en Vulnerabilidad a Desastres (Intensive Course on Theoretical Approaches and Scientific Research on Vulnerability to Disasters).  November 17-19, 2009. Universidad de Colima. Colima, Mexico.

Workshop Instructor, SPSS: An Introduction to Statistical Analysis. Workshop given at the Disaster Research Center Research Experience for Undergraduates Program. July, 2009.

Workshop Instructor, Geographic Information Systems and Emergency Managers in Puerto Rico. Annual Emergency Management Conference. State Agency for Emergency Management and Disaster Administration. June 5, 2009. San Juan, PR.

Instructor, Social Sciences Module. Facilitated in the Radar Networks Graduate Course (ECE697V) of Dr. David McLaughlin. October 6-9, 2008. University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Guest Lecture, Centro de Investigación en Desastres: Métodos de investigación y acercamientos multi-disciplinarios al estudio de los desastres (Disaster Research Center: Multi-disciplinary aspects of disasters and research methods). Taller de Enseñanza e investigación de procesos de riesgo-desastre: Aportaciones de científicos y autoridades (Risk-Disaster Processes Research and Training Workshop: Contributions of scientists and authorities). September 13, 2008. College of Sciences. Universidad de Colima. Colima México.

Guest Lecture. Desarrollo, Riesgo y Desastres: El caso de Puerto Rico. Keynote speaker (Development, Risk, and Disasters: The case of Puerto Rico). Taller de Enseñanza e investigación de procesos de riesgo-desastre: Aportaciones de científicos y autoridades (Risk-Disaster Processes Research and Training Workshop: Contributions of scientists and authorities). September 13, 2008. College of Sciences. Universidad de Colima. Colima México.

Guest Lecture, Collaborative Adaptive Sensisng of the Athmosphere: Acercamientos Multi-disciplinarios a fenómenos atmosféricos (Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Athmosphere: Multi-disciplinary approaches to atmospheric events). September 12, 2008. College of Engineering. Universidad de Colima. Colima, México.

Guest Lecture, Sistemas Geográficos de Información y las Ciencias Sociales (Geographic Information Systems and the Social Sciences). September 12, 2008. College of Engineering. Universidad de Colima. Colima, México.

Workshop Instructor, June, 2007. Geographic Information Systems and Disasters. DRC Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates. University of Delaware.

Guest Lecture, Vulnerability to Natural Disasters: Understanding the Differentiated Effects of Disasters. DRC Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates. June 18, 2006. University of Delaware.

Guest Lecture. Geographic Information Systems: Applications for Emergency Management and Disaster Research. DRC Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates. June 12, 2006. University of Delaware.

Guest Lecture, “Hurricane Katrina: Race, Class and Vulnerability to Natural Disasters. Facilitated in Professor Tricia Wachtendorf’s Social Vulnerability in Disasters Undergraduate Class. November 6, 2005. University of Delaware.

Workshop Instructor, SPSS: An Introduction to Statistical Analysis. Workshop given at the DRC Research Experience for Undergraduates Program. July 15, 2005. University of Delaware

Instructor, PLAN 6068: Advanced Reading – Disasters, Emergency Management, and Society. Fall 2014. Salvador Escabí Graduate School.of Planning. University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras.